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Bishops Stick To Back To Basics
BY MURRAY WHITE As JOHN MAJOR'S Back to Basics policy further disintegrated this week following the resignation of ministerial aide Hartley Booth, Church leaders prepared to......
C Of E Faces Cash Shortage
A. SEVERE. CASH shortage threatens the Church f England's ancient parish system. The Church Commissioners are to cut in half their contribution to clergy salaries over the next......
Cafod 24-hour Fast
THOUSANDS OF YOUNG people are signing up to support CAFOD this Lent by going without food for 24 hours. More than 20,000 people joined the 24 Hour Fast last year, raising money......
Pope Delivers Lenten Message To Catholics
IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO give from one's surplus in these difficult times, we should abstain from our often immoderate desire for material goods, so as to offer our neighbour what he......
Counsellors For Abortion
A PILOT POST-ABORTION support group available to Catholic women will be launched next week by the national pro-life charity, LIFE. "Rachel's Support Group" is the country's......
Jane Tells Of Her Post-abortion Trauma
I HAD AN ABORTION A130IJT 13 and a half years ago. I'd been married for two years and had one child. It was a rocky marriage and, at the time, it didn't seem right to bring......
Cia Linked To '81 Papal Assassination
By VIVIANE HEWITT IN ROME POPE JOHN PAUL II'S Would be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, did not shoot to kill, He had orders to wound only and the attack was designed as a personal......
Pope John Paul Ii Received The First "special Israeli...
Representative" accredited to the Holy See, at Vatican City last week. Dr Shmuel Hadas is the first envoy from Israel to Vatican City. The Vatican last month announced the......