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Pope Calls A Meeting Of All His Cardinals
THE Vatican this week announced a special assembly of the world's cardinals to discuss threats in society against the sanctity of human life and the evangelising of Catholics by......
Plea To 'godless' In Eternal City
by our Rome correspondent IN an unprecedented "open letter to Romans", Pope John Paul II, Bishop of Rome, last week warned citizens that the eternal city was increasingly......
Language Of Arms In Russia Condemned
by Timothy Elphick POPE John Paul II this week called on the Soviet Union to abandon the "language of arms" in the Baltics and resolve the Kremlin's dispute with the......
Mayan Indians Suffer At Hands Of The Military
by Mark Topping THE oppression and murder of Mayan Indians in Guatemala is continuing says Ricardo Falla, a 58 year old Jesuit who works with Guatemalan refugees in Mexico. Fr......
Pro-lifers March On Washington
THOUSANDS of pro-life demonstrators marched on the Washington supreme court last week, during the largest of a series of events to mark the 18th anniversary of the legalising of......
Priest-president Faces New Threat
DEMONSTRATORS manned barricades in the streets of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince this week, as fears mounted in the Caribbean republic of a further attempt by supporters of......
Calabrian Bishop Wants To Buy Mafia Pistols
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome THE Italian bishop who lives under a constant Mafia threat of assassination has offered to buy all the arms police recently seized from the crime ring......
Convent Royal Dies
AN exiled Romanian princess who spent her later life in a convent in the United States died this week in Ohio at the age of 82. Princess Ileana, born the youngest child of King......
News In Brief
Cathedral torched THE Catholic cathedral in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, has been destroyed by fire in fighting between government troops and the rebel United Somali......