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Beatified Mexican Revives Tensions
by Michael Tangeman in Mexico City PAPAL approval for the beatification of a Mexican Jesuit who was executed in 1927 has stirred an old political controversy rooted in Mexico's......
Cardinal Cancels Auschwitz Convent
PLANS to build a Carmelite convent on the site of the Auschwitz camp in Poland have been cancelled. At the urging of Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia and Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum......
No Visas For Lithuanians
THE Soviet authorities have refused to permit the Catholic bishops and diocesan administrators of Lithuania to attend the 1987 celebrations in Rome of the 600th anniversary of......
Argentina Divorce Row Fillip
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH in Argentina has accused the nation's supreme court of an "anti-democratic usurpation of powers" from the Congress after a ruling that a constitutional ban......
Two Faces Of Kenya
Joanna Moorhead, Cafod's press officer, was asked on the eve of her recent trip to Kenya — `but is it a third world country? She answers such doubts. "BUT is Kenya a Third world......
Fatal Harvest Of Apples And Pears In Garden Of Eden
NOVEMBER in Nicaragua means trees full of ripe oranges, lemons and grapefruit. We find our breakfast under the trees each morning. Before this citrus harvest we had had three......