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English Test For Shroud
by Christopher Howse THE authenticity of the Shroud of Turin may be tested in England within a year. Carbon-14 tests on the fibre of the Shroud may prove it to be a mediaeval......
No Women Priests At Expense Of Unity
PEOPLE who favour the ordination of women do not think it should go ahead at the expense of church unity. according to a new Gallup poll. The poll of 972 men and women,......
Pilgrims For Peace: About 3.000 Christians On The...
Monday walk between the two Suffolk villages of Mildenhall and Lakenheath. both of which have large United States Air Force bases. Christian CND claim it was the biggest......
Record Crowd Closes Year
TORTURE. starvation and the threat of nuclear war were listed as aspects of evil against which the forces of Christ are fighting, in Pope John Paul's Easter Day message Urbi et......
Disunity Gap Narrows
THE GAP between the Catholic, Anglican and United Reform Churches in Britain has narrowed considerably in the last 60 years, Dr Bernard Thorogood. general secretary of the......
Vatican Bans Book After 17 Years
by Jonathan Petre A BEST selling adult catechism first published in 1967 was last week banned by the Vatican. Although the sections of Christ Among Us which have upset the......
Cardinal Blesses New Abbot
CARDINAL Hume gave the abbatial blessing to the new Abbot of Ampleforth, Dom Patrick Berry, in the Abbey Church of St Laurence the Martyr at Ampleforth College. Yorkshire, on......
Bishop Lashes Sir Keith
CONTROVERSY over Sir Keith Joseph's recent speech to Catholic headmasters, in which he rejected the "historic share" principle, blew up this week with a bitter attack on the......