Scottish Catholic Observer

Pope Benedict XVI dedicates general audience to St Peter Canisius and training for priests, and welcomes students from the Highlands and the Irish Institutes in Rome. Video link:

http://www.romereports.com/palio/index.php?newlang=english

Pope John Paul II (above left) documentary to be released before Beatification

http://www.thenews.pl/culture/artykul148971_jp-ii-documentary-released-before-beatification-.html

Pope JPII Beatification website launches as Rome Diocese goes online in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday event.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/jp2-beatification-website-launches/

The government’s new Education Bill, designed to overhall English schools, has been criticised as a vehicle for the proliferation of religious discrimination in the state-maintained school system.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14112

The Russian Orthodox Church has ruled that hierarchs (church leaders) and clergy can run for political office in exceptional cases when their presence is needed to fight “forces striving to use electoral power to fight the Orthodox Church”

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14114

Anti-Christian violence erupts in Indonesia

http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=460649

The apostolic nuncio to Mexico is affirming that Benedict XVI is “very worried” about the violence in that country.

http://www.zenit.org/article-31690?l=english

Vatican spokesman: cautious optimism on protests in Egypt, Tunisia

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9191

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