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Eucharistic Congress Officials Reject Hiroshima Plea
Officials of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress in Washington have rejected a request by a disarmament group to change the date of the August 6 liturgy honouring the......
Florence Cathedral In Danger
The octagonal cupola of the Cathedral of St Mary of the Flowers, the crowning glory of Florence, has joined a growing list of seriously endangered Italian church monuments.......
Anglican Synod Agrees Appointment System
From Robert Nowell, York By the overwhelming majority of 390 votes to 29 the General Synod of the Church of England has endorsed the proposals for the appointment of bishops put......
Visiting Women Clergy Ban
Bishops of the Church of England are to ban visiting Anglican women priests who have been ordained in overseas parts of the Anglican Communion. They have done so after taking......
Minister Urges More Foreign Aid
MR REG PRENTICE, Minister for Overseas Development, said on Tuesday that overseas aid was not a marginal charity but a moral imperative for Britain. Speaking to the London......
Liverpool Students Ordained Deacons
Archbishop Worlock of Liverpool ordained eight students for the priesthood to the diaconate — the final step before full ordination to the priesthood last Sunday. They were......
Vietnam Expels 26 Missionaries
Communist Vietnam has expelled 26 foreign missionaries, Many of them, in their sixties, have been working in South East Asia for decades. A French priest who arrived in Paris......
Headmaster Retires
Fr Bernard Murtough, C.J,, retires at the end of the present academic year after 27 years as headmaster of St George's, Weybridge, Surrey. Fr Murtough first came as a pupil to......
Judge Praises After Groups
LORD JUSTICE Sir Frederick Lawton of the Court of Appeal told the annual meeting of the Catholic Social Service for Prisoners this week that he had learnt to be sceptical of......
Bishop
blesses new school Bishop Alexander of Clifton blessed and opened SS Peter and Paul Primary School, Bristol, last week. The celebrations were in two parts. In the morning Bishop......