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Fear That Anglican Vicars May 'side With Rome' After Blow...
Pope's letter to Runde may prompt exodus by Martin Newland A LETTER from the Pope to the Archbishop of Canterbury warning that the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion......
Bishops Slam Tory Union Laws
by Joanna Moorhead THE Catholic bishops this week delivered a strong attack on the Government, accusing it of being "intent upon rendering trade unions powerless". In a working......
Medjugorje
decision soon by Viviane Hewitt in Rome PRESSURE is growing for official Vatican recognition of the shrine at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. With anniversary celebrations of reports of......
Divorced An Invaluable Asset To Church And Parish
by Peter Stanford THOSE who have undergone the trauma of marriage breakdown have a healing power to share with the rest of the church community, the annual conference of the......
Ryan's Euro-poll Run Sparks Rome Decision
THE clerical status of the renegade Irish priest Fr Patrick Ryan will be determined "fairly soon" 'according to the superior of the Irish Pallottines, Fr William Hanly. Fr Hanly......
Belmont's Thatcher Bonfire
PUPILS at a Catholic public school were given time off their studies this week to celebrate Mrs Thatcher's tenth anniversary as Prime Minister with a bonfire, barbeque, beer and......
Pope's Green Message
by Matthew Keegan POPE John Paul 11 re-affirmed the Church's teaching on artificial birth-control at a Mass attended by 100,000 people in Madagascar this week. Preaching in the......
Changes At Murdoch's Collins
THE religious division of Collins, the publishers taken over recently by Rupert Murdoch's News International group, is to be merged with a leading Evangelical house, it was......