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Eight Move A Step Nearer Sainthood
POPE Paul VI has advanced the cause for sainthood of Fr Damien de Veuster, 19th-century apostle to the lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. In ceremonies at the Vatican,......
Chile Protest By Bishop Mahon
BISHOP Gerald Mahon, the Bishop in West London, and Lord Ramsey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, were the leading signatories in a letter in The Times at the weekend urging......
Theologians Set Conference Date
THE THIRD World Theologians group is to hold a conference in Accra in December this year as a follow up to its consultation in Dar es Salaam in 1976. The conference will be held......
Atheism Course
A THREE year course in the study of atheism has been inaugurated at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. The course is open to ecclesiastical and missionary students as well......
A Few Facts About Some 'facts'
IT is not unusual for secular newspapers to make claims about themselves and to engage in indirect or even direct attacks upon each other. It may be argued that because......
Mexican Ban On Lefebvre
A planned visit by Archbishop Lefebvre lo Mexico had to be abandoned when the Archbishop was declared "persona non grata" by the government. No explanation was given but it......
For Pope Elephant
A Vatican road crew is keeping an eye open for a missing papal elephant which belonged to Renaissance Pope Leo X. The elephant, given to the Pontiff during his pageant-filled......
Watching Westminster Sells Leo's 6 Apartheid' Shares
Westminster diocese is going ahead with its decision to sell its 11,211 shares in Consolidated Goldfields, the mining company with extensive operations in South Africa. The......
`help Us' Plea By Seminaries
to close threatened priest A priest who fled El Salvador in May after a threat had been made on his life has called on British churches to show their solidarity with the Church......
To Close
The Scottish bishops have decided to close two of the four seminaries in Scotland. St Vincent's College in Langbank will close at the start of the 1978-79 school year. All minor......