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Mps Predict Powell Bill Filibuster
By Jonathan Petre CATHOLIC MPs were this week delighted that Mr Enoch Powell had outflanked opponents of his bilI to outlaw experimentation on human embryos by manoeuvring it......
Cardinals Meet To Discuss Vatican Debt
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome A CAR DINALATE commission began an important meeting on Vatican finance and organisation on March 5. It is the first such meeting since the Vatican......
Sex Handbook Controversy Surfaces In Leeds
STUDENTS at one of Britain's largest Catholic teacher training colleges have been receiving information on contraception, venereal disease and drugs in their student handbook,......
Church Lists Atrocities
THE Zimbabwean Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace handed in a report to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe on Wednesday detailing a series of violent incidents carried out by......
The Barque With A Bite
by Jack O'Sullivan NOBODY can accuse the Church of selling the Greater London Council down the river. This week, Catholics joined a motley crew of trade unionists, councillors,......
Glemp Back To Polish Turmoil
by Peter Stanford CARDINAL Josef Glemp left Britain on Monday at the end of a "happy and successful" visit, and was at once confronted with renewed turmoil in Poland over......
The Little Sisters Of The Poor At Meadow Rd., South
Lambeth, London SW8 1QH have be g un their project to provide a modern home on the site of their former Home which served the Elderly of modest means since 1863, Due to its age......
Church Urges Partial Miners Amnesty
TWO Catholic archbishops have expressed reservations at this week's return to work by most miners, and have called for an amnesty for at least some of the 718 pitmen sacked for......
Abbey Ve Day Service
'for all' AT THE request of the Ministry of Defence, a special ecumenical service to commemerate VE Day will take place in Westminster Abbey on May 8. Representatives of the......
John Ryan
A FAST-SELLING religious education text-book which makes no mention of the existence of a revealed God and encourages 10 and 11 year olds to make up "spells" and record them in......
Archbishop Inches Away From Death
ARCHBISHOP Juan Francisco Fresno of Santiago escaped death by inches this week as a major earthquake, measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit the coastal plain of Chile, leaving......