Scottish Catholic Observer

Irish Bishops oppose minimum wage cut in document on the Common Good released ahead of the general election on Friday and forthcoming elections in Northern Ireland. CJP member and Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby (above) was at the launch.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0221/breaking58.html

Catholic council says 50-50 policing scheme should stay in Northern Ireland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12528048

DUP’s Peter Robinson: I’ll go to Catholic Mass

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/dups-peter-robinson-irsquoll-go-to-catholic-mass-15090877.html#ixzz1EccIFFnO

As the second volume of Jesus of Nazareth was about to be published, a Swiss cardinal said it’s important that people realise the book was written by the theologian Joseph Ratzinger and not by Pope Benedict XVI.

http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=9539

New cardinal in charge of delivering the Habemus Papam. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran is the new protodeacon, the person in charge of announcing the name of a new Pope after a conclave.

Video link: http://www.romereports.com/palio/New-cardinal-in-charge-of-delivering-the-Habemus-Papam-english-3581.html

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