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Cross Wires: Tuesday breaking news

The latest Catholic and ecumenical news

TOP STORIES

Doctors write letter in support Margo MacDonald MSP’s (above) assisted suicide bill, opposed by the Church, as it goes before a Scottish Parliamentary committee today.

Papal advisor German Cardinal Walter Kasper says remarried divorcees should be given Communion.

Pope Francis’ visit South Korea this August will coincide with the Sixth Asian Youth Day and the Beatification of 124 Korean martyrs.

SCOTLAND/UK/IRELAND

Catholic mother Theresa Riggi—who killed her three children in Edinburgh—has taken her own life in hospital.

Anti-Irish racism and Scottish independence debate at St Patrick’s Festival, Coatbridge.

Bishop Egan: ‘Secularism is a totally inadequate basis for British society.’

Irish abuse campaigner and survivor Christine Buckley  dies aged 67.

CAFOD joins call for end to war in Syria

INTERNATIONAL

Fire destroys Milwaukee seminary’s historic buildings in US.

OPINION

Is the United Nations behind Scottish/global plan for overseers of children?

AND FINALLY

Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry: “I would love to have been a dad.”

 

 

—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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