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Global Themes Surface In Belgian Peace
by Peter Stanford GREETED by enthusiastic, if somewhat sparse crowds in Belgium and Luxembourg this week, Pope John Paul put to one side his firm reaffirmations of church......
East-west Over Agca Tension Trial
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome A PROPAGANDA battle has broken out in Rome on the eve of the trial to ascertain if there was an international conspiracy behind Mehmet Ali Agca's......
Plea For Church Investment In Business
by Jack O'Sullivan THE Church should invest in small businesses and cooperatives, sponsor government training schemes and work with the unemployed at a parish level; urges a......
Cardinals In St Peter's
THIS weekend will see the public consistory in Rome of the 28 new cardinals recently named by Pope John Paul. They will receive their red hats and rings from the Pope at a......
Ecumenical Bait For Fisher And More Date
THERE IS an unmistakably ecumenical flavour to the celebrations planned for June and July to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of St John Fisher and St Thomas More. An......
Sad Farewell To The Boro' Cathedral
MIDDLESBROUGH' S Victorian Cathedral will he demolished, probably at the end of next year, and replaced by a smaller, simpler cathedral church beside a shopping centre, it was......
Agencies Challenge 'fo Over Nicaragua
THE, disclosure of apparent British Government policy to black aid to Nicaragua in The Observer last week has prompted a tough response from the heads of five British aid......
Church Dissent On Sunday Trading
by Kasia Gied roy c A MOTION to accept the case for Sunday trading and to look forward to early legislation possibly in the autumn was carried in the House of Commons this week......
Newman Overtones As Vicar Resigns
by a special correspondent in Oxford IN THE Anglican university church at Oxford, where once Cardinal Newman was vicar, the present incumbent, the Rev Peter Cornwell, announced......
The More We Starve This Woman Of Help The More We Feed...
Already many people have died in the Ethiopian Famine Disaster. Now millions of people like the women in the picture are victims of one of the most crippling droughts on r ecord......