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Bishop Predicts That Peace Letter Will Not Embrace...
US bishops urged not to call for ban on bomb by Christopher Rails TWO CATHOLIC politicians in West Germany have appealed to American Catholic bishops not to publish a pastoral......
Holy Year Indulgence Justified
Pope stresses need for penance in Maundy Thursday letter to priests by Christopher Howse POPE JOHN PAUL has explained some of the thinking behind the indulgences offered during......
New Archbishop For Cardiff
BISHOP John Ward of Menevia (right) is to be the next Archbishop of Cardiff, it was confirmed this week. Bishop Ward, aged 53, has been bishop of Menevia only since 1980. He......
Bishops Condemn Mugabe Violence
From a special correspondent in Harare. HE ZIMBABWE Catholic Bishop's Conference issued a statement on Tuesday strongly critical of the government for its handling of the......
Mary Rose Rites
By Louis Jebb CATHOLIC priests will not take part in next year's requiem for the sailors who died when the Mary Rose sank in The Solent in 1545. Last week's decision to hold a......
Italy Claims Shroud
THE ITALIAN State may contest the will of the late King Umberto who left the Shroud of Turin to the Pope. The state considers the Shroud its own property. The late King's......
Archbishop Cardinale Dies
ARCHBISHOP Ilyginus Eugene Cardinale (left), former Apostolic Delegate to Britain, died on Thursday last week at the age 01 66. He was Apostolic Delegate in this country from......