Scottish Catholic Observer

Pope Benedict XVI encourages Haitians (above) on first anniversary of quake

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=453622

Holy Father appoints new Haiti archbishop

http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2011-01/pope-appoints-new-haiti-archbishop-one-year-after-quake

Pope Benedict XVI explains purgatory a process, not a place, at general audience

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100116.htm

Video link http://www.romereports.com/palio/Benedict-XVI-explains-purgatory-english-3384.html

Survey finds Papal visit united UK churches

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17446

British Embassy reflects on Pope Benedict’s speech to diplomats

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=453535

SSPX leader criticises Pope’s plan to hold inter-religious meeting

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/01/12/sspx-leader-criticises-pope’s-plan-to-hold-inter-religious-meeting/

More than 87,000 people left the Catholic Church in Austria last year, it has been announced.

http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2011-01-12/5929/Catholic_flock_shrinkage_hits_post-war_high

More young women find a calling in Catholic order

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/education/More-Young-Women-Find-a-Calling-in-Catholic-Order-113395904.html

Seton Hall University, New Jersey, US, hires first lay president in more than two decades

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/a_gabriel_esteban_is_named_new.html

Six students have been suspended a Canadian High School following online threats in the wake of the city of in Edmonton’s latest homicide.

http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/local/article/742329–facebook-threats-result-in-suspensions

—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog