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Mystery Of Massacre In El Salvador
By Christopher Rails THE vagueness surrounding reports in recent weeks of a massacre of 1,500 Salvadorean refugees has defied investigation. and the Salvadorean government has......
Pleas For Aid For Lebanon
APPEALS for prayers and help p for Catholics in the Lebananon have come from the Vatican and the bishops conference in England. The Pope's umbrella organisation for relief and......
Lull In Storm Over Pope And Abortion
THE CONTROVERSY on the Italian abortion referendum has abated as Pope John Paul avoided the subject in his speech to the Focolare New Families Movement at Rome's Palazzo -Dello......
Professors Urge Pope To Reopen Kung Proceedings
By Christopher Howse TWO CATHOLIC professors of theology at the University of Tubingen have written to the Pope demanding the reopenihg of the Kung case. Their appeal makes......
Churches Boycott Anniversary Celebrations
LEADERS of all the South African churches have announced that they will not be taking part in the celebrations at the end of this month to mark the 20th anniversary of the......
Hitch To American Pro-life Proposal
PRO ABORTION groups in the United States are, using a declaration by - six former attorneys general to preserve a legal right to abortion established in 1971 The three......
Committee For The Family May Receive Wider Brief
THE VATICAN's Committee for the Family may be upgraded by the Pope as a result of a meeting or heads of departments of the Curia in March. The Committee, founded in 1973, played......
Bishops May Endorse Civil Disobedience On Arms
ANGLICAN Church leaders from all over the world indicated last week that they could endorse civil disobedience in efforts to promote nuclear disarmament. Twenty seven bishops......
China Bishop In Rome For Talks
BISHOP Dominic Tang. apostolic administrator of Canton, had a half hour audience with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli on Monday. Bishop 'Fang had an......