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Pope Mourns Bishop's `unjust' Murder
BY LUCY LETHBRIDGE POPE JoHN PAUL II has condemned the shooting last week of a Salvadoran Catholic bishop as a "barbarous assassination". Bishop Joaquin Ramos Umana, who held......
Medics Curb Sex Selection
BY ANGUS M AC DO NALD B RITAIN'S DOCTORS backed away from recommending that couples be able to choose the sex of their babies "for social reasons" at their annual conference......
Catechism In Gay Book Row
By CARMEL FITZSIMONS A Boot( loom gay priests has delayed the publication of the new English language Catechism of the Catholic Church until next year. The Catechism was......
Bishops Counter Anglican Criticism
Prelates remain cautious on conversion BY CRISTINA ODONE Two CATHOLIC BISHOPS have denied charges of placing obstacles in the way of wouldbe Anglican converts. Bishop Patrick......
Germans Hit At Encyclical
BY VIVIANE HEWITT IN Roma THE POPE'S NEW encyclical on morality, expected to be published on 25 July, the 25th anniversary of Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, has already drawn......
Friars Appeal To Japanese
BY OUR ROME CORRESPONDENT FRANCISCANS ARE ABOUT to set off on a world tour to gather funds to restore their historic Assisi monastery, and their first stop is Tokyo. The......
Tory Voters Converted By Pope Gregory
BY LUCY LETHBRIDGE c orridors HAS BEEN a year in which the corridors of power have echoed with the footfalls of Roman Catholics. Now that there is a Catholic chaplaincy in the......