Page 2, 2nd December 1983
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Casaroli Meets
Reagan over missiles CARDINAL Agostino Casaroli, Papal Secretary of State, met with President Ronald Reagan Last week to discuss the "international situation, the main concern"......
Gambling 'insults' Workers
HIGH-STAKES gambling that economically damages the gambler and his family is morally unacceptable, said an editorial last week in the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano. The......
Order Of Malta Comes To Aid Of
150,000 Lebanese Christians by Christopher Rails A BRITISH eyewitness, back from a visit to Lebanon, spoke of the plight of 150,000 Christian refugees in the country, and warned......
Pope Visits A Lutheran Church For The First Time
THE VISIT of Pope Paul to Rome's Evangelical Lutheran church in just over a week's time will be the first time that any Pope has visited a Lutheran church. Yet Lutheran and......
Overseas News In Brief
'Enough' plea "IN THE name of God, the father of life and death, enough," said Archbishop Arturo Rivera Dames of San Salvador last week in asking for an end to the country's......
Century-old Breach Healed
THE UNITED States Congress has given final approval to ending a century-old ban on formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See. The action came as the......
Poverty And Crime Worry Neapolitan Pilgrims
POPE PAUL reminded members of more than 100 Catholic lay groups of their common goal — the "realisation of Christ's kingdom – — during a Holy Year Mass in St Peter's Basilica......
Pickets Scuffle At Calcutta School As Cardinal Calls For...
Attacks on nuns reveal Bengal rifts by Christopher Howse A THREE week strike at a Catholic school in India, during which nuns and parents were assaulted and pickets fought with......
Pope's House To Be Museum
THE CATHOLIC Church in Poland has acquired the house where Pope John Paul was born and plans to turn it into a museum. The Church bought the house from the small town of......