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A Dutch Lesson In Disagreement
Alex Cosgrave reports the National Pastoral Consultation in Utrecht. How traditional and progressive elements can live. and work together in the Church was the question that......
Shroud Test Turned Down
British experts on the Shroud of Turin have attacked an official recommendation that the Shroud should not be given a carbon 14 dating test — the one process which could prove......
Ukrainians Face Excommunication
Two Ukrainian priests already suspended by the Vatican for saying Mass and hearing confessions without permission face possible excommunication unless they do what the Vatican......
Teenagers In Care Abortions Attacked
Proposals that schoolgirls in Council care should be allowed abortions have brought protests by anti-abortion grows. Wiltshire County Council. announced that girls hi their......
State Turning Away Homeless
The Government has failed in its duty to provide a minimum income for homeless people, according to a report published this week. The report "Third Class Claimants" is the......
The Herald Says
MIRACLES, sacred relics, thaumaturgical and charismatic events are as embarrassing to the modem world as the old weather diviner is to the Met Office. We are happy to talk of......
Pope Calls It Barbarous
Thousands of Italians took to the streets this week to express their shock and anger at the murder of Signor Aldo Moro, whose body was found on Tuesday dumped in a stolen car in......
Bishop To Armed Forces Retires
BISHOP Gerard Tickle, the bishop for the armed forces has resigned, The Vatican does not ask bishops to retire until they are 75, but Bishop Tickle, who is nearly 70, feels that......
Call To Pray For Disarmament
CHRISTIANS throughout Britain are asked to offer prayers on Trinity Sunday, May 21 for world-wide disarmament. The United Nations has set aside May 23-June 28, for a special......
Leprosy Guild Gifts Up 40 Pc
LEPERS in 40 countries throughout the world received help from the St Francis Leprosy Guild last year. The Guild distributed almost 181,000 — an increase of more than 40 per......
New Charity
CHRIST Today Community Trust, which is based in London, has been registered as a charity by the Charity Commissioners. The trust provides accommodation to the homeless and those......
Papal Audience For Norfolk Family.
THE DUKE of Norfolk and his family — nearly 30 of them —were recently received in private audience by Pope Paul in Rorn,e. Patrick O'Donovan, page 10.......