Scottish Catholic Observer

Archbishop Louis Sako (above) of Kirkuk, Northern Iraq, says car the bomb outside a Syrian Catholic Church that wounded 23 yesterday will not stop work for peace among religions.

http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=509311

Three people have been sentenced to death for their roles in the deadly attack on the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, last October.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2316955.ece

Catholic charities in UK fight to survive government cuts.

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18709

At funeral in Italy yesterday a Vatican official said late US nuncio Archbishop Pietro Sambi had been lined up for a Vatican post.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1103062.htm

Bishop Peter Connors of Ballarat, Australia, says inquiry into suicides reported among victims of clerical abuse Catholic in Victoria would achieve little.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/church-sex-abuse-inquiry-not-needed-20110802-1i9ja.html

Pope Benedict XVI has intervened in a property dispute between monks and a Croatian diocese.

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/croazia-vaticano-croatia-vaticna-croacia-vatican-6496/

OPINION

The new evangelisation calls everyone to the primacy of God, says Stanislaw Rylko in L’Osservatore Romano.

http://www.news.va/en/news/the-new-evangelization-calls-everyone-to-the-prima

Inclusive policy in Ontario, Canada, is an open declaration of war on Catholic schools as it seeks to normalise homosexuality and thus change Catholic teaching, say Paul Kokoski.

http://www.thespec.com/opinion/article/572338–catholic-schools-in-a-catastrophic-state

AND…

Sr Wendy Beckett said her two recently published books are her most ‘explicitly’ Catholic works to date.

http://ncronline.org/news/sr-wendy-new-most-explicitly-catholic-works

…FINALLY

Cardinal Sean Brady has asked GAA clubs to stop scheduling games at the same time as Sunday morning Mass.

http://www.thejournal.ie/cardinal-tells-gaa-stop-sports-fixtures-clashing-with-mass-191405-Aug2011/

- Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog