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Blair Holds Private Talks With Archbishop
Prime Minister `very close' to Catholicism Exclusive BY BRUCE JOHNSTON IN SIENA AND JOE JENKINS TONY BLAIR confided during his Italian holiday near here that he felt "very......
Ex-residents To Sue Nazareth Sisters
Two HUNDRED and sixty former residents of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth childrens' homes are preparing to sue the order. their lawyer said this week. The group of former......
Star Of Hope
ON THE FEAST of the Assumption last weekend, the Holy Father prayed that Mary act as a "star of hope" for the men and women of the modem age as they struggle to understand the......
Collection Theft
PROSECUTORS have charged a Pittsburgh priest with misappropriating at least $1.5m (almost £1m) from two dioceses over the past 26 years. Fr Walter J Benz, 72, and his associate......
Chiapas Bishops
MENICAN bishops have called for immediate disarmament of warring parties in the southern province of Chiapas. Nine bishops made a pastoral visit to the strife-tom area last......
Mislaid Saint
Tim M isi.a1D body of a Russian Orthodox saint has been discovered in a St Petersburg museum's vaults. The mummified corpse of Saint Alexander Svirsky was identified at the St......
Glemp U-turn
POLISH Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp unexpectedly withdrew his support for the planting of crosses at Auschwitz this week. Just days after he rebuked the Israeli government for......
Mcguinness
MARTIN MCGUINNESS. Shill fein MP for Mid Ulster has joined parents and teachers in a campaign to save a Catholic primary school from closure. The Carland Community Support Group......