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Cross Wires: Monday breaking news

The latest Catholic headlines from Scotland and around the globe

Bishop Hugh Gilbert (above) of Aberdeen, former Benedictine abbot, apologises on behalf of the Church of abuse of pupils at Fort Augustus boarding school.

Pope Francis at Angelus: “There are so many young people in the Piazza today… It seems like Rio de Janeiro.”

Pope appoints new secretary to “Ecclesia Dei.”

Consulates in London and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank

Fr Nulty, 49, becomes Ireland’s youngest Catholic bishop.

—Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog. Follow breaking news from the SCO through the day on Twitter at SCO_NEWS

 

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