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How Your Money Is Managed
Fr Michael Sharkey looks at the way cash donated to the pontifical mission aid societies is distributed by the Pope THE POPE gave away $134 million of your money last week. The......
Salvador Troops Step Up Terror
by Cristina Odone AS military raids on civilians in guerrilla-controlled areas of El Salvador continue unabated, human rights activists have come under increasing attack by......
Overseas News In Brief
Angolan meeting UPON receiving Angolan bishops in the Vatican last week, Pope John Paul II defined the church in that African nation as a missionary Church within a socialist......
Hurley Slams Sa Cross Border Raids
THE General-Secretary of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference Fr Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, is to appear in court in the middle of next month on charges of unlawfully......
Mexico Media Church Call
THE Catholic Church in Mexico has publicly demanded its own television and radio stations so as to be able. to better communicate its message to the Mexican people. The Church......
Priests Criticise Papal Trip To Rhone-alpes
TWO PRIESTS from the French diocese of Lyon have criticised Pope John Paul II's forthcoming trip to the RhoneAlpes region in October. The criticisms were included in a document......
New York Backs Irish Bill
THE NEW YORK state legislature last week gave its 'approval to a piece of legislation aimed at backing investment in United States companies which operate employment policies......
Vatican Document Finds Boff Approval
THE Brazilian Franciscan Fr Leonardo Boff has published an open letter in the press expressing his qualified agreement with the Vatican's latest document on liberation theology.......
Distinguished Visitor
The visit of 77-year old Archbishop Helder Camara of Brazil to Portugal was an immense success and was extensively reported in all the newspapers. He went to Fatima for the......
Letter From
LISBON by Susan Lowndes Marques Cementing the old alliance THE Sixth Centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Windsor between England and Portugal was marked by a service in St......