Scottish Catholic Observer

More than 800 mourners, including Celtic manager Neil Lennon, attended the funeral for Catholic teenager Reamonn Gormley (above) who was fatally stabbed after a football match in a bar. Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell led the funeral Mass.

http://news.scotsman.com/news/800-turn-out-for-funeral.6721192.jp

A film about the life of Scottish Catholic singer Susan Boyle is in the works, with American actress Glenn Close set to take the lead role.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/susan-boyle/news/258917-susan-boyle-film-in-the-works

Number of baptised Catholics in the world grows by 15 million.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/number-of-baptized-catholics-in-the-world-grows-by-15-million/

New start available for those who accept Christ, says Pope Benedict XVI.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-start-available-for-those-who-accept-christ-says-pope/

Vatican officials have prevented Lesley-Anne Knight, a British citizen born in Zimbabwe, from seeking a second four-year term as secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100695.htm

Egypt restores ambassador to Vatican

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/egypt-restores-ambassador-vatican

Polish Catholic missionary killed in Tunisia; Thousands protest against extremism.

http://www.bosnewslife.com/15495-polish-catholic-missionary-killed-in-tunisia-thousands-protest-against-extremism

Australian priests threaten to resist introduction of new Mass translation.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9320

Christians in Mangalore in India have united in rejecting the final report of the Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry set up to go in to the attacks on religious places in September 2008 across the state.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Christians-reject-Somasekhara-Commission-report-demand-CBI-probe/articleshow/7535788.cms

A former top Catholic church official in Philadelphia has been placed on administrative leave following charges of endangering children in connection with sexual abuse by priests.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002257.html

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