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Mp Battles To Halt Deportation
by Peter Stanford A CATHOLIC MP and a local clergyman are leading a campaign to halt Home Office moves to split up an Asian family from Leicester by deporting the mother. Mrs......
Tax Battle Looms
CHURCH and state in Ireland may clash over a rumoured government intention to make clergy pay PRSI, or Pay Related Social Insurance — something akin to our own National......
Vatican To Rule On Dissent
By Martin Newland THE Vatican is poised to react to a "changed socialcultural context" and the growing tide of dissent from within its ranks over ethical teaching with the......
Bizarre Killing Of German Priest
A 63-YEAR-OLD Lefebvrist priest, Fr Franz Mulch, was found murdered in his flat in Wiesbaden, West Germany, earlier this week, with a wooden stake driven through his heart, and......
Rome Tries To Calm Jewish Protests
IN a week that has seen the Vatican extend an invitation to Jewish groups in an effort to diffuse the crisis over the Pope's June meeting with Austria's President, Kurt......
Central America Blessing
THE POPE'S prayers for a "peaceful" solution to Central America's bloody struggles bore fruit this week when five of the region's leaders drew up a peace plan at a conference in......
No 'rough Handling' In The Classroom
by Coky Giedroyc CORPORAL punishment in all state-maintained schools is to be abolished from August 15, in accordance with a provision in the 1986 Education Act (section 47).......
Sa Priest In Court On Firearms Charge
THE Secretary General of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference appeared in court briefly last Friday on a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm. However, no......