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Church Wins Important Concessions From Inland Revenue
Agreement reached on tax covenants by Jack O'Sullivan THE Inland Revenue has retreated from its early tough stance in negotiations with Church finance officers over covenant......
Too Few Catholics Employed By Ni Banks Says Study
by Peter Stanford DESPITE an increase since 1970, the total of Catholics employed in the five main banks in Northern Ireland is "very substantially below the proportion of......
Embryo Dispute Splits Life
THE National Political Officer of Life has offered to resign in an internal row over whether the organisation should support a bill controlling in vitro fertilisation. Keith......
Korean Primate Calls For Direct Election
by James Allen THE CATHOLIC primate of South Korea, Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou Hwan, has joined the country's opposition parties in calling for the president to be elected......
Bishops Attack Namibia Proposal
CHURCH officials in both Britain and Namibia have reacted with scepticism to South Africa's announcement last week that the UN plan for Namibia's independence would be......
A Witness For Peace
THE FIGURE and the feast day of St Patrick are being used this year to express the yearning for peace in Northern Ireland. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales, Scotland......
Irish Church In Tax Battle
THE Irish Catholic Church has embarked on a vigorous campaign of opposition to the Dublin Government's decision to impose a 35 per cent tax on interest from bank deposits. One......
Vatican Bans Us Moral Theologian
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome THE VATICAN has banned one of America's most prominent moral theologians from teaching, according to Rome sources. The priest concerned, Fr Charles......
Sr Carol And Her Oscar
WHEN the Academy Awards are presented in Los Angeles later this month a Mercy sister will be among the glitterati witnessing the handing out of the gold statuettes. Sr Carol......