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Signs Of Thaw On Communists
THE VATICAN may be starting to accept the idea that the Communist Party will have to join the Christian Democrats in governing Italy. Cardinal Antonio Poma, president of the......
Vatican Hopes For Peace Fade As Tridentinists Dig In
r By Frances Gumley THE VATICAN'S hopes for an eventual reconciliation with Archbishop , Lefebvre and his followers seems to be fading as the traditionalists in Switzerland,......
St Benedict's Jubilee
ST BENEDICT'S SCHOOL, Ealing, held jubilee celebrations yesterday in honour of the 75th anniversary of its foundation. When it was founded in 1902 by Dom Sebastian Cave, OSB, a......
British Miners Praise Nests Of Bolivia
r By a Staff Reporter PRIESTS working in the mining areas of Bolivia were the only link the people there had with decency and democracy, Mr Ted McKay, member of a three-man......
El Salvador Expels Jesuits
A Jesuit spokesman in Rome said last week that three Jesuit priests had been expelled by El Salvador. Two of them, Fr Andres Salvador Carranza and Fr Marcellino Perez, worked in......
New Education Body
BISHOP DAVID KONSTANT, the Bishop in Central London, chaired the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Education Commission at the Westminster Education Centre at the weekend.......
Celebrations In Durham
THE 150th anniversary of the opening of St Cuthbert's, Old Elvet, Durham, was commemorated by Bishop Hugh Lindsay of Hexham and Newcastle when he presided at a concelebrated......
50,000 At Polish Consecration
AB OUT 50,000 people were at the consecration of the church in Nowa Huta, a 50year-old industrial town near Krakau, on Sunday, May 1 5. The Polish authorities had opposed the......
Head Priest Quits After One Year
THE headmaster of St George's College, Weybridge, Fr Illtyd Morgan Evans has resigned and is seeking laicisation. The announcement was made in a letter to parents from Fr Peter......
Ruling On First Confession
FIRST Communion before First Confession can be spiritually damaging and must no longer be permitted, according to a letter from the heads of two Vatican Congregations addressed......
'roots' Man's Irish Roots
Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the novel "Roots", about his search for his African ancestors, revealed that some of his "roots" were Irish-Catholic. He said in......
Generous Parish
Holy Cross Parish, Parsons Green, London, has so far contributed more than £1,500 towards the financial appeal made by Cardinal Hume to help reduce Westminster's £6.5 million......
News In Brief
Wealthy nations' 'selfishness' According to Pope Paul, the tendency of some well-off nations to seek only their own further economic gains is harming the Church's mission......