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Fr Mkhatshwa, 'blind-folded And Forced To Stand For 30...
Court challenge to SA priest's torture by Peter Stanford THE SOUTH African Supreme Court yesterday was scheduled to hear an urgent appeal for an order restraining police from......
Fr Curran Dubious On Ban Reversal
by Jack O'Sullivan FR Charles Curran hopes to appeal against the Vatican decision announced last week, forbidding him from teaching Catholic theology. But he doubts that the ban......
Epidemic Threat In Cameroon Disaster
A PRIEST working in the stricken area of Cameroon in Central Africa has reported that bodies of the estimated 1,500 victims are tying about unattended, and that food, clothing,......
Catholic Caning Questioned In Europe
by Cristina Odone IN A DECISION that will affect a number of Catholic schools in this country, the European Commission of Human Rights will soon judge whether caning in......
Poletti Lunges At The Media
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome THE possibility that Archbishop Paul Marcinkus is in cahoots with the Devil was raised at the current annual meeting of the Italian lay movement,......
Financial Chief Bows Out
DAVID AMBROSE is to leave his post as Westminster Diocesan Financial Advisor after five years. Although the diocese has an accumulated debt of £4.9 million in its last published......
Salvador Peace Talks To Resume
CHURCH CHAIRED peace talks will resume when the Salvadoran Government and rebel leaders meet next month in the latest attempt to end the seven year civil war. A communique......
Vatican Rep In Roman Guns Rap
A FORMER PHILIPPINES ambassador to the Holy See is being questioned by Italian police. He has been charged with illegal possession of firearms and it is thought that he will......
Soviets Get Full Marks
PAX CHRISTI General Secretary, Fr Owen Hardwicke, wrote to the Soviet Ambassador in London last week to welcome the Soviet Government's announcement of its continued ban on......
Berlin Priest Row
THE voice of dissent in West Berlin has been silenced from the other side of the Wall in a row which has exposed a Catholic anomaly. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, as Archbishop of......