Scottish Catholic Observer

BREAKING NEWS

SCIAF Chief executive Paul Chitnis (above) has said he is ‘unhappy’ about a decision to fund the Pope’s UK visit with cash intended to help the poor in the world’s poverty-stricken nations.

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Catholic-charity-attacks-aid-for.6710714.jp

The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland has called on the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference not to introduce the third edition of The Roman Missal until it has consulted with priests and laity

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0204/1224288985722.html

VATICAN

The Pope has great expectations for the ‘Youcat,’ a text designed to teach young people the ABC’s of Catholicism using a language tailored to their generation.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-promotes-gripping-new-youth-catechism/

Vatican plans conference on AIDS on May 28: another ‘clarification’ of Pope’s statement on condoms?

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9133

Christ’s resurrection is victory over sickness, Pope says‎

http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2011/02/greater-sensitivity-towards-sick-and.html

Body parts can’t be donated to save lives after he dies, the Vatican says.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-pope-organs-idUKTRE7131RL20110204

UK

A new ‘listening process’ has begun in a Catholic diocese in Northern Ireland in a bid to improve relations between the Church and its followers after a series of clerical abuse scandals caused untold damage to its reputation.

http://www.u.tv/News/Catholic-Church-listens-to-followers/eecf193c-20e7-45eb-8cda-6662d4754a3e

Ushaw College – statement regarding the closure of the conference centre and St Cuthbert’s Seminary

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17582

UK publishers to the Holy See issues guide in Britain to turn the tables on Harry Potter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353517/Catholic-Church-issues-guide-turn-tables-Harry-Potter-witches.html#ixzz1Cz3Pcw5X

Extracts from a controversial sex education programme, Living and Growing, produced by Channel 4, will be screened at a public meeting being held in Worksop, Nottingham, to alert parents to the dangers of explicit sex education. Antonia Tully, the organiser of the Safe at School campaign, will speak at a public meeting organised by SPUC in Worksop on Wednesday 9 February, 7.30 pm, at The Crossing Church and Centre, Newcastle Street, Worksop.

http://www.spuc.org.uk/campaigns/safeatschool/

INTERNATIONAL

Catholic Church querying US Anglicans for possible ordinariate

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic-church-querying-us-anglicans-for-possible-ordinariate/

Church hasn’t lost generation in their 20s, US Jesuit conference speakers say

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100448.htm

Around a third of all Catholic theology professors at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, on Friday called for reforms to the Catholic Church, including an end to celibacy

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14816788,00.html

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