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Bishop Returns From Famine Region
by Timothy Elphick FAMINE is returning to the Horn of Africa on a scale not seen since the mass starvation of six years ago, the chair of the Catholic Fund for Overseas......
Bishops Launch Stinging Attack On Government's 'complete...
The scandal of the homeless by Joanna Moorhead THE Catholic bishops of England and Wales this week made their strongest attack yet on government housing policy, saying the......
Plan To Take Pius To Haven In Washington
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome A 1951 agreement between the United States and Italy prepared the way for a transfer of then Pope Pius XII to Washington in the event of a communist......
Radio Concerns
by Rita Wall BISHOP Crispian Hollis joined with other churchmen this week in denouncing a draft proposal by the new Radio Authority to allow money appeals on religious......
Papal Plea To Europe
by our Rome correspondent THE new united Europe must re-discover its Christian roots if it is to make a valid contribution to the solution of the current world crisis, Pope John......
Six Court Date Welcomed
FR Bobby Gilmore, director of the Irish chaplaincy in Britain, has welcomed the decision to hold a preliminary hearing in the Court of Appeal op the Birmingham Six case next......
Goodbye To The City
FORMER Bank of England economist David Waite left the city and fears of a recession behind this week when he was ordained a priest at English Martyrs church, Walworth, south......
Rescue Bus For Irish
OVER 60 homeless Irish people living rough in London have been promised a special Christmas present this year. Seamus McGuire, project director of Youth in Need, a charity based......
From Bishop Kelly: When The Lord God Placed The Rainbow
amid the clouds after the great flood, he said: "When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant which is between me and every......
Advent Short Stories: Caribbean-born Writer John Figueroa...
of a traditional Christmas in Jamaica, page 7 WITH CHRIST ON THE EDGE: seminarian James McCartney sleeps rough with the homeless and reflects on the meaning of the coming of the......