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Let Lay Women Give Absolution, Suggests Bishop
BY LUKE COPPEN CATHOLIC lay women should be allowed to administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation, an English bishop has suggested. In remarks that will rekindle the controversy......
Bishops Out In Force At Catholic Youth Festival
BY TRACY-JO SMITH ORGANISERS of the Youth 2000 annual festival of prayer and evangelisation have claimed that this year's event marked a historic breakthrough in relations......
Pius Xii Ruled Out Pact With Hitler, Documents In Kennedy...
BY CHRISTINA FARRELL THE: PRIVATE: archives of United States President John F Kennedy's father have revealed new evidence of the Vatican's clear and unequivocal opposition to......
Bells, Maybe But No Smells In Irish Church
BY SIM014 CALDWELL IT WAS FOR many years a joke that Liverpool rather than Dublin was the capital of the Irish Republic. But soon some Irish people might feel just as at home in......