Scottish Catholic Observer

SCOTLAND, UK AND IRELAND

Fire at former St Mark’s Primary School ‘started deliberately.’

Concern has been raised in Shrewsbury this week after five Diocesan Trustees were sacked by Bishop Mark Davies (above).

Evidence from Catholic schools in Britain attended by the children of Polish immigrants suggests that the presence of non-native English speakers might – in some cases, at least – have a positive effect on natives’ results.

A Northern Ireland government-led investigation into clerical child abuse may fail because of a lack of powers to make witnesses come forward and seize internal church files, Amnesty International has warned.

A new city centre ‘Camino,’ or pilgrim walk, has been launched in Dublin as part of the celebrations surrounding the International Eucharistic Congress set for June 10-17.

VATICAN

Pope: Fatherhood crisis hurts our understanding of God.

Archbishop Zygmunt Zimoski, the president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care, calls for universal health-care coverage.

Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi was abducted for sex exploitation, says Rome’s former exorcist Fr Gabriel Amorth.

INTERNATIONAL

The Italian crisis is very profound and Catholicism alone can give the country the adequate answer, says Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI).

Vietnamese Catholic activists charged for anti-state propaganda.

Major Catholic Celebration in honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe slated for August in LA.

Redefining marriage would be a ‘huge social experiment, in which the guinea pigs are children,’ a Free Church of Scotland report has warned.

OPINION

Why a priest would rather face jail than betray a penitent.