Scottish Catholic Observer

SCOTLAND

The soldier son of a senior Church of Scotland minister is fighting for his life following a bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed two of his comrades.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/vigil-for-soldier-son-of-minister-1.1105077?localLinksEnabled=false

East Dunbartonshire Council has advertised vacancies for head teachers in four Catholic Primary schools.

http://www.sces.uk.com/

IRELAND/ENGLAND

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (above) of Dublin has criticised the Vatican for its slowness in responding to reports from apostolic visitation teams to Ireland.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0603/1224298323584.html

Irish theologian Gerry O’Hanlon SJ explains Ireland’s ‘blessed mess.’

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=26424

Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signituras, cancels Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice lecture.

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18340

Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton speaks of Conference on the Safeguarding of Children taking place in Rome.

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=492671

VATICAN

Croatia’s Ambassador Filip Vucak speaks ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s weekend trip to Zagreb, Croatia tomorrow at the start of for weekend celebrations marking the first National Day for Croatian Catholic Families.

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=491979

INTERNATIONAL

Spanish royalty meet with World Youth Day organisers.

http://www.zenit.org/article-32740?l=english

Israeli Jew who became a Catholic priest is named head of Papal court.

http://tinyurl.com/6j32bkh

China’s government-run Catholic Church plans to ordain Fr Joseph Shen Guoan as a bishop this month, without the Pope’s approval.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/156639/20110602/vatican-ordination-bishop-catholic.htm

Monks and rabbis have stood alongside Catholics and Anglicans in Australia to show support for the federal government’s plan to tackle climate change.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/religious-leaders-back-carbon-tax-20110602-1fie4.html#ixzz1OCVS4mCM

Leaders of the Catholic Church here said they were caught by surprise by the filing of the divorce bill in the Philippines Congress.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/11742/zamboanga-church-leaders-surprised-by-divorce-bill

—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog