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Court Refuses To Release Tortured Black Priest
`End apartheid SA bishops tell `deaf' Botha by Peter Stanford A WARNING from South Africa's Catholic bishops that unless apartheid was rapidly dismantled, the spiral of violence......
Women Priests Plea For Pope Down Under
POPE JOHN Paul has covered three Asian countries in the past three days and departs for New Zealand tomorrow on the second leg of his marathon 14 day progress through......
Dissenting Jesuit Faces Expulsion
A JESUIT of 40 years faces expulsion from his order for disobeying a Vatican inspired ban on his writing or speaking publicly on sexual ethics. Fr John McNeill SJ, a practicing......
Churches Step Into Schools' Row
by Cristina Odone "IRREPARABLE damage to the education of thousands of pupils "has already taken place i n Scotland, the Catholic Education Commission (CEC) stated in a letter......
New Centre For Ecumenical Focolare
CARDINAL Hume and the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Barbarito, joined the leaders of other denominations in formally opening a new international ecumenical centre in......
Cardinal Sets Up Forum For Moral Theologians
by Jack O'Sullivan MORAL theologians and bishops are to meet, probably in the early new year, for top level discussions to calm the waters in the wake of the Curran affair.......
Monogamy Urged In Aids Battle
THE Catholic Church in England and Wales would not support the public distribution of condoms, to prevent the spread of AIDS, Cardinal Hume has said. Keeping sex within marriage......
No Crossing In Glasgow Derby
by Cristina Odone CATHOLIC football players on the Glasgow Celtic team may no longer make the Sign of the Cross after hitting the back of the net. The order was issued by Celtic......
Vatican `snub' In Salvador Choice
A JESUIT publication has accused the Vatican of bowing to pressure from the Salvadoran military in appointing a foreigner bishop of Sonsonate in the western sector of the......