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Cross Wires: Thursday headlines

The latest Catholic news

Highlight religious meaning of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI asks Christians at his last general audience before Christmas. (Video link here).

Pope Benedict: Vaclav Havel a visionary leader.

Spanish Archbishop Santos Abril was installed as archpriest of St Mary Major, one of the four Papal basilicas in Rome. (video).

The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, hopes for a peaceful Christmas, but on the new State the shadow of insurgency is a burden.

Vatican City: No plans to limit Sistine Chapel tourists.

Scotland’s anti-bigotry bill: Public views of the new anti-sectarianism legislation.

AND FINALLY

Vatican hosts unusual Christmas Latin test.

- Cross wires is a Scottish Catholic Observer blog

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  • Health care professionals back Catholic midwives’ case against NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde over supervision of staff taking part in abortion.
  • Outcry as for-profit abortion clinics are allowed to advertise on television.
  • Cardinal O’Brien, Archbishop Conti of Glasgow, Bishop Emeritus Moran or Aberdeen and Bishop Joseph Toal of Argyll and the Isles join celebrations at St Bridget’s Church, Baillieston, for the golden jubilee of Mgr John McIntyre.
  • Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley led a solemn evening prayer at St Mary’s Church alongside Mgr Denis Carlin, parish priest at the Greenock church, and clergy from other churches to mark the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
  • The International Youth Pro-Life Conference, which has thrived in Scotland, is being held in England for the first time this March

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