Page 2, 2nd June 1978

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Church With A Sad 21-year History

St Joseph's Church at Bedwell, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, is to he demolished only 21 years after it was opened, and a new combined church and 'social centre is to be built at an......

Parish Club Demolished

Bulldozers and a squad of deinulition workers disrupted the peaceful life of the parishioners of the Sacred Heart Church, Coventry, last week. At one moment everything was......

Bishops In China Alive But Not Free

The Archbishop of Mukden, Fentien and Shu-Shih in China, died for "supporting religious groups", it was disclosed last week. At the same time Vatican sources revealed that there......

Teachers Happy To Work In Uganda

Two young teachers flew off to Uganda on Tuesday to spend two years working as lay missionaries and both said they were glad to be going. Miss Margaret Dunn, from Armley, near......

1 Hree British Missionaries In Chile Could Be Facing Serious

reprisals from the Chilean authorities after deciding to join a hunger strike in the capital city, Santiago. Fr Desmond McCiillictiddy, a Mill Hill missionary, Fr Brendan Ford,......

Priests

A significant number at American priests are in favour of optional celibacy, the ordination of married men and the resumptitre of ministry by resigned priests whir have married.......

African Ycw Leader Arrested

Archbishop J. P. Fitzgerald of Johannesburg, chairman of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' 'Conference, has protested against the recent detention of an African Catholic......

Married Russia Denounced Fuether Evidence Of Russian...

the Soviet regime mei g,ed last weekend when an international gathering of Chlistians in Moscow was denounced as hollow charade by the Christian Committee to Defend Believers'......

In A Unique G4.sture Of Welcome H; Anglicans And, Methodists

attending a special Mass for -communicators at Westminster Cathedral last week Cardinal Hume invited them to come to the altar rails during the distribution of Communion where......

Simon Task Still

urgent The mission of the Simon Community In caring for the homeless has never been more applicable than it Is today, according to Mr Michael Raymond chairman of the community's......

Women And The Media

Catholic *omen *ere urged last week to plas a greater part in the community and to use the media to publicise the Christian point of view. The call came from Bishop James......