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Vatican Denies Ratzinger Is About To Retire
BY VIVIANE HEWITT IN ROME THE VATICAN HAS denied speculation in Rome that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, controversial Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,......
Judge Sanctions Confessional Bugs
BY OUR ROME CORRESPONDENT A JUDICIAL LNQUIRY in Italy has ruled that police "did well and were within their rights" to bug a prison chapel confessional. Three months ago, San......
Rome Deplores Iraqi Deaths
BY LtiCY LETHBRIDGE r E VATICAN THIS week issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the US attack on Baghdad. Vatic an spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the Vatican "obviously......
Nassau Expels Haitians
IN THE WEEK N WHICH exiled Haitian president and former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide is negotiating his return, thousands of Haitian nationals are facing expulsion from the......
Brazilian Priest On Trial
AB DOMENIC.A_N THEOLOGIAN is due to stand trial in razil today on a charge of slandering Sao Paulo state police. Fr Frei Betto, a wellknown trade union sympathiser, was charged......
News In Brief
Too much sex VATICAN SPOKESMAN Joaquin Navarro-Valls has blamed "an irresponsibly permissive society" and its "over-inflated build-up of sexuality" for priests who sexually......