Scottish Catholic Observer

Full schedule released for Pope Benedict XVI’s May visit to Venice

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9276

Pope’s secretary Monsignor Georg Gaenswein: healthy secularism reinforces Italian identity

http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=462543

German bishops see recycled ideas in theologians’ ‘reform’ letter

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/german-bishops-see-recycled-ideas-in-theologians-reform-letter/

Church can help victims of pirates

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100618.htm

John Sweeney (seen above), Labor leader, Hall of Famer is among the Catholics to receive the Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100630.htm

The permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations is affirming that an effective means to eradicate poverty is to invest in the health and development of children.

http://www.zenit.org/article-31760?l=english

The Lauriston Jesuit Centre in Edinburgh is delighted to welcome Fr J-Glenn Murray to Scotland, in advance of his ‘Gonzaga Lecture’ at St Aloysius College in Glagsow. Fr Myrray will talk in Edinburgh ON Meal and Ministry: A Possible Ecumenical Response to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

http://www.lauriston.org.uk/index_files/murray.htm

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