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Haitian Priests Say Prelate Must Go
by Cristina Odone AMID A climate of political tension, Haitian priests and nuns are pressing for the resignation of Archbishop Francois Ligonde of Port-auPrince because of his......
Bishops Confer On Wide Topic Range
THE SYNOD on the laity, ecumenism, drug abuse, Church finance, nuclear weapons and education dominated this week's three-day meeting of the hierarchy. And two events made the......
New Document Backs Armed Struggle As 'last Resort' To...
Rome acts against injustice by Peter Stanford IN A NEW document on "Christian freedom and liberation", released in Rome on Saturday, the Church has rejected the class struggle,......
Bede's Back In Business
ST BEDE'S Catholic Secondary school, which faced threats of closure by July 1987 because of falling rolls, was saved on April 1, when the County Education Committee of......
`contras Murdered Fr Arsenault' Honduran Bishop Claims
A SENIOR Honduran bishop has claimed that two members of United States funded "contras" were responsible for the murder of a Canadian missionary, Fr William Arsenault. Two......
New Nuncio Praises Church Leadership
THE NEW Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Barbarito, praised the "wise and prudent leadership" of the Catholic Church in England and Wales during his first address in England,......
Guatemala Sterility Claim
CHARGES OF FORCED mass sterilisation have been brought by Archbishop Prospero Penados de Barrio of Guatemala City, against a United States-funded organisation. The American......
Dioceses Fear Large Surcharge On Covenants
by Jack O'Sullivan THREE of the four dioceses, whose covenant schemes are being investigated by the Inland Revenue, have been identified as Leeds, Northampton, and Hexham and......