Page 1, 19th September 1986
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Coup For Aquino In Pact With Rebels
by Cristina Odone THE RECENT signing of a peace treaty between President Corazon Aquino and rebel priest Fr Conrado Balweg, leader of guerrillas fighting for the autonomy of......
Cuomo Abortion Views Upset Bishop
IN the wake of the Curran affair, a dispute over churchstate relations has been rekindled in the United States, which last raged during the 1984 Presidential elections. Al the......
Cardinal Calls For New Look At Role Of Laity
by Peter Stanford ALTHOUGH next year's Synod on the laity will not be "a decisive moment in the life of the Church", the whole question of the role and mission of the laity......
Papal Trip To Chile Under Scrutiny
FOLLOWING the reimposition of the state of siege in Chile in the wake of an unsuccessful assassination attenri pt on General Pinochet, senior Vatican officials are reexamining......
Tv Star's Deathbed Wedding
CORONATION STREET star Pat Phoenix was married in a Catholic ceremony held last week, days before her death on Wednesday in a Cheshire hospital. The Catholic actress, who was......
Vatican Denies Witchhunt
THE Vatican Press Office has denied all knowledge of an alleged witchhunt aimed at flushing out 190 priests and religious who have revealed their opposition to clerical celibacy......
Kent Peace Prize
QUOTING Martin Luther King's dictum that if we cannot learn to live together as brothers and sisters, then we will perish as fools, Mgr Bruce Kent accepted the Greek Orthodox......
Pope Cites Prayer As Lifeline
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome THE only alternative to destruction, Pope John Paul told pilgrims at Castelgandolfo on Sunday, is prayer. The more intricate conflictual situations......
Reordination Backed By Archbishop
by Jack O'Sullivan ARCHBISHOP Maurice Couve de Murville of Birmingham has given his backing to an application from former Anglican vicar, Peter Cornwell, for reordination. Mr......
Away With Those Bats Bring In The Computers
BATS IN the belfry and priests ignorant of new technology may soon join Latin Masses and meat-less Fridays on the Church's reject shelves. Specialist building companies are......