Page 1, 4th December 1981

4th December 1981
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Congress Poll Provokes Some Angry Replies

by Christopher Howse A LENGTHY questionnaire has gone out to the 2,000 delegates at last year's National Pastoral Congress in Liverpool to compare their views with those of the......

Tv Award For Cardinal Hume Film

PROGRAMMES with Catholic connections have won all the major awards in the first ever "religious television" competition of its kind. Subjects covered range from the......

Church Gives Warm Welcome To Scarman Report On Brixton

by Jonathan Petre CHURCH leaders have responded quickly and positively to the publication last week of the Scarman report on th e Brixton riots. In a joint statem ent issued......

Cardinal Ratzinger Appointment

CARDINAL Joseph Ratzinger, the 54-year-old Archbishop of Munich, has been appointed by the Pope to head the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This is one of the......

Labour `threat' To Catholic Schools

PROPOSALS from a left wing educational association that could lead to the abolition of church schools have been called "political suicide" h‘ one Catholic Labour Councillor on......

Hell Warning For Ira Bombers

BISHOP WILLIAM Philbin, of Down and Connor, has warned of eternal punishment for rioters who stoned a dead policeman after he had been killed in an IRA bomb trap. The bishop......