Cross Wires: Monday headlines
The latest Catholic news from Scotland and around the world
TOP STORY
A probe by the Vatican into the handling of clerical child abuse in Ireland will be published and not kept secret, a senior aide to the Pope has pledged.
Holy Father asked Catholics yesterday to prepare for Christmas with sober self assessment.
SCOTLAND/UK
Studies confirm the value of traditional marriage and the need to strengthen families.
Kirk may change its hard-line view against gay marriage when a report into human sexuality is finally published in 2013.
Charity Nil by Mouth makes bigot rehabilitation call.
VATICAN
Many priests decline appointment as bishops, Vatican prefect discloses.
This Christmas, the nativity scene in St Peter’s Square will be dedicated Mary, the Mother of God.
Christmas tree from Ukraine, 98 feet tall, arrives in the Vatican.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone turns 77.
Tweeting cardinals spread the word in 140 characters
INTERNATIONAL
New projects in Malawi from Missionary Childhood for Children with AIDS.
US judge denies move for Vatican testimony in abuse case.
Archbishop of Bhopal: A tragedy forgotten, but not yet over.
OPINION
Emer O’Kelly on Irish abuse reports: The awful injustices visited on Fr Kevin Reynolds and clerical abuse victims may hold different places on the scale of horror.
Freddy Gray: An ecclesiastical attack on the government?
Phil Lawyer: Why liberal liturgists dislike the new translation.
AND FINALLY
Pope Benedict XVI reflects on Bavarian Advent traditions.
-Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer blog
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Ok, Mr. O’Kelly. The average Catholic young person is probably far safer with his parish priest,than with family members and athletic coaches. And they’re have been false accusations as well. Most recently a married Ukrainian Catholic priest was falsely accused. Two orgaizations have been set up to defend falsely accused priests. 42% of Catholic priests in the USA feel that if they were accused, they would not get due process from their bishops.