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Cross Wire: Friday latest news
SCIAF challenges foreign aid funnelled for Papal visit; Irish priests call for delay in introducing new translation of Roman Missal; Pope has high hopes for new youth catechism; Vatican plans conference on AIDS; Church querying US Anglicans for possible ordinariate; Calls to end clerical celibacy; young adults not lost to Church say Jesuits...
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
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
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
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