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Vatican Backs Traditionalist Fraternity Of St Peter In...
Return to Rome by Lefebvrist leaders by Vivienne Hewitt in Rome JUST a month after Pope John Paul excommunicated French traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the four......
Bishops Back Sa Military Objector
THE DAY after a white man was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court for refusing to join the South African Army, an official of the local Catholic bishops'......
East End Council Condemned
A REPORT released this week by the Catholic Association for Racial Justice strongly criticises Tower Hamlets Borough Council's treatment of its Bangladeshi community. The report......
Missile Destruction Observer
FR OWEN Hardwicke, a former general secretary of Pax Christi, will be leaving London tomorrow for Kazakhstan on the Soviet-Chinese border to witness the destruction of the first......
Us Romanticism On Ireland Slammed
by Brian Dooley AMERICANS were told to end their romantic image of the IRA in a hard-hitting speech by Cardinal John O'Connor of New York in Armagh on Monday. The cardinal is on......
Women's Role Debated By Lambeth
by Martin Newland DELEGATES at the Anglican Lambeth Conference on Friday faced up to the most potentially divisive issue on the agenda: the ordination of women to the......
Come And See, Convents Urge
by our Rome correspondent IN an unprecedented attempt to boost vocations, three closed orders of nuns in Italy are opening their convents to women tourists this summer. "We want......
Welsh Catholics Get A Native Missal
"CATHOLIC parishes in Wales will soon be able to follow the Mass in their native tongue with the impending publication of a new Sunday Missal in Welsh. "There are a certain......
Unions Praise Pope
by our Rome correspondent IN a surprise intitiative, Italy's hard-line militant trades unions called a special conference to discuss Pope John Paul's latest enclyclical on......