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Rome Letter Rebukes Parents Who Seek To Frustrate...
Vatican backs cardinal in schools battle by Martin Newland CARDINAL Hume, who has said he is prepared to go to jail rather than capitulate to parents' demands over the fate of a......
New Tests For Shroud Later This Year, Says Italian Expert
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome THE controversial Shroud of Turin, which many still believe was Christ's burial-cloth, is to undergo a much more extensive examination later this year,......
Kremlin Approves Russian Bishop
VATICAN-Soviet relations took a significant step forward this week when Moscow approved the appointment by Pope John Paul II of the first Catholic bishop in Belorussia since the......
Challoner Troubles Rumble On
by Matthew Keegan LONDON'S exclusive Catholic club, the ChalIoner, continues to be beset with problems after this week's annual general meeting was declared invalid due to a......
Church In Tamil Plea
CHURCHES of all denominations in Sri Lanka have issued an appeal for an end to murder and torture in their country, and have criticised a recently introduced compulsory draft......
'heresy' To Support Oppression Claim 2,000 Theologians
CHRISTIANS who support repressive regimes in Third World countries will be branded as heretics in a document signed by 2,000 theologians which is to be released next week. The......
Youngsters Go For Gold
EIGHT hundred boys and girls from ten countries descended on Liverpool this week to take part in the 41st European Catholic Schools Games. The games, held last year in Belgium,......
Exiled Polish Head Dies
MASSES were being held within the Polish community in Britain this week following the death of Kazimierz Sabbat, the fifth President of the London-based Polish Government in......