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Cross Wires: Tuesday headlines
Latest Catholic news from home and abroad
Pope Benedict XVI speaks of the need to recover the Christian roots of Europe.
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=489443
Scottish police are failing to use their powers to tackle sectarianism, Professor Tom Devine, one of Scotland’s top historians claimed last night.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/39We-have-the-laws-to.6772586.jp
Pete Wishart, SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire, calls for Royal Commission on sectarianism.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Pete-Wishart-calls-for-Royal.6771236.jp
All Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been invited to participate in a pilot scheme for the Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Award.
http://www.sces.uk.com/news/2011/05/17/pope-benedict-xvi-caritas-award.html
Northern Ireland police failed to protect Catholic attorney Rosemary Nelson, a six-year investigation into the 12-year-old killing concluded yesterday.
Chinese Catholic Church, government officials wrestle for control of annual day of prayer.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10405
Cultural Exchange with China (CEC), a UK-based organisation that builds links with the Catholic Church in China, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18277
Vatican suppresses Cistercian abbey in Rome.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10400
Relations between Al-Azhar, Egypt’s prestigious Islamic Institution, and the Vatican are poised to improve after months of tensions.
A Catholic hospital in Joplin, Missouri, took a direct hit from a severe tornado that struck the US city.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102027.htm
AND FINALLY
The Church of Scotland has voted to allow the possible selection of gay and lesbian ministers in the future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13492501
—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog
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