Page 2, 29th March 1985

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Economy Pastoral Raises Us Catholic Tempers

by Peter Stanford AT THE sane time as two Nobel prize-winning economists were praising the US bishops' draft pastoral on the economy to Congress last week, a group of Catholic......

Letter From

AUSTRALIA by Alan McElwain Master of the ten-minute rule CARDINAL Sir James Freeman was Archbishop of Sydney from 1971 until 1983, when arbitary age (75), the great......

Polish Print Cutbacks Aimed At Church Papers

THE secretary of the Polish bishops' conference, Archbishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, bus said that recent officially-imposed newsprint cutbacks in Poland have hurt the country's......

Sisters Condemn Us 'contras' Aid

THE Reagan administration's policy of providing arms for anti-Sandinista "contra" fighters is "not only immoral and illegal — it doesn't work", the co-ordinator of the Maryknoll......

Tax Deal Problem For Priests

THE FINAL ratification of the new Concordat between the Vatican and Italy this week coincided with the publication of a poll which suggests that Italian priests may face......

Church Bid To End Bolivia Strike

THE Catholic Church has intervened in an attempt to end a two-week old general strike which has brought Bolivia to the brink of civil war. Archbishop Jorge Mani ique Hurtado of......

Guyana Churches Protest

THE Guyana Council of Churches and the Guyana Human Rights Association have both condemned official Interference in their work in recent weeks. Officials of the ruling People's......

Famine Visit

THE Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Tomas 0 Fiaich, visited the drought-stricken areas of Ethiopia this week, accompanied by Brian McKeow n, the director of Trocaire, the Irish......