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World Synod Of Bishops Set To Consider Improved
training and general absolution Confession heads bishops' agenda 'A DECLINE in the practice of confession and the issue of general absolution without individual confession are......
Irishmen Chosen To Lead Dominicans And Augustinians
TWO MAJOR religious orders, the Augustinians and the Dominicans, have elected new heads to lead them into the nineties. The 70 0-year-old Augustinians have chosen Fr Martin......
Salvadoreans Are Praised
VATICAN RADIO has praised the efforts of Catholic leaders in El Salvador to promote negotiations between the government and the guerrillas. Preliminary talks between guerrilla......
Catholics In The Philippines Mourn Assassinated Leader
MORE THAN 20,000 people marched last Friday from Quezon City in the suburbs of Manila to Santo Domingo Catholic Church in the city centre at the end of nine days' mourning for......
Overseas News In Brief
Hunger strike KESTON College reports that a Catholic family in Bucharest is coming under increasing pressure from the authorities because of their attempts to emigrate for......
South African Bishops Give Support To Multi-racial Party
SOUTH AFRICA'S Catholic bishops have indicated their support for the initial efforts of the United Democratic Front, a new multiracial political party formed last month. The......
`no Change' In Guatemala
THE CHANGE of government generalship in Guatemala has done nothing to alleviate oppression of the Church and violations of human rights, it is claimed. When General Oscar Mella......
Overwhelming Support For Irish Amendment
A CATHOLIC-BACKED amendment to Ireland's constitution to prohibit abortion was overwhelmingly passed last week. Although abortion is illegal in Ireland, supporters of the......
Cardinal Tipped For Vatican
by Christopher Rails PROGRESSIVE church sources in Latin America fear that the ultra-conservative Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo of Medellin, Colombia, could secure an......
Kearsney Manor Nursing Home
Acquired in 1981 by the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, Kearnsney Manor provides high standards of comfort and professional nursing/ medical care, including holiday relief and......
St Teresa Help Me!
"Have recourse to The Little Flower of Jesus," was the ur g ent advice g iven by Pope Pius XI to a Missionary In g reat distress . In a Ike dilemma with confidence we take to......