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Guidelines May Be Set Up To Oversee Rome Option
by Cristina Odone and Angus Macdonald THE country's Catholic bishops are expected to issue guidelines for disaffected Anglicans seeking to convert to Catholicism next week, at......
Pope And Grand Rabbi Set For Historic Meeting
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome HISTORY will be made when the Pope meets with the Grand Rabbi of Israel later this year. Jewish sources this week added to speculation in Rome that the......
Italian Nuns Protest Washing Of Men's Feet
by our Rome correspondent NUNS in Italy last week joined forces to protest the tradition by which only men's feet can be washed during Holy Thursday celebrations. The sisters......
Eye For
vocations by Lucy Lethbridge THE ORDER of Carmelites in England has elected a new Prior Provincial this week. Fr Joseph Chalmers originally joined the order after he spotted it......
A Tourist A Day Can Harm The Sistine
CONTROVERSY over the fate of the Sistine Chapel continued to rage this week with a warning from two scientists that too many tourists a day could spoil Michelangelo's......
Catholics In Rome Attack Mosque Plan
ON GOOD Friday evening. during Pope John Paul Ii's traditional Via Crucis, at Rome's landmark monument, the ceremony was marred by crowds of traditionalists protesting the......
Calls For Casey To Come Home
MEMBERS of the Irish hierarchy are calling for the former Bishop of Galway to come out of hiding. Bishop Brendan Comiskey of Ferns said the former bishop, who was forced to......
Hume Urged To Back Gay Rights
by Murray White CARDINAL Basil Hume is being urged to make public a document in which he says that, although homosexual genital acts are wrong, being homosexual is not a sin.......