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New Crackdown On Priests In Czechoslovakia
by Christopher Howse PROTESTS from a human rights group in Czechoslovakia against the arrest of a Franciscan priest have reached Rome in the last few days. The arrest is seen as......
News In Brief
POPE JOHN Paul ordained II new bishops in St Peter's on Tuesday, the Feast of the Epiphany. They included a Brazilian, an Indonesian, an Argentine and a Nigerian. AN ICON......
Polish Church Meets Kor To Heal Rift
ACTION was taken this week to heal the rift that had appeared between the Polish bishops and the dissident group, KOR, as a result of a pastoral letter which criticised "loud......
Spain's New Nuncio
THE ARCHBISHOP of Madrid responded to journalists' questions last week by denying that the new Papal Nuncio to Spain had any link with the international Catholic association,......
Bishop Blames Bandits For Uganda Famine
THE BISHOP 'in charge of the Karamoja area of Uganda where thousands were hit by famine has protested to the government over the lawlessness that has led to deaths in his......
Guyana Police 'biased'
THE Catholic Standard. a national weekly published in Georgetown by the Jesuits, has accused the Guyanese police of showing political bias in law enforcement. "Today police are......
Priest Attacks Guatemala Church Leaders
A FORMER missionary in Guatemala has criticised the bishops there for failing to provide proper leadership for the people who are caught in an increasingly bitter battle between......
Chinese Bishop Says Mass For Crowds
THOUSANDS of worshippers crowded into churches across China to celebrate Christmas and their numbers were so great the independent Catholic movement opened a second place of......
Archbishop Credited With Hostages Pledge
THE IRANIAN pledge to release the three Anglican churchworkers who have been held there for the past five months was secured purely through the personal intervention of the......
Hostage Wife Sits It Out
AS THE 14-month old ordeal of the 52 American hostages in Iran grinds on. their families in the United States can only sit and wait, Barbara Rosen knows what it is like. She has......
General Haig's Catholic Service Idea
ITy John Carey GENERAL Alexander Haig, the man named by United States President elect Ronald Reagan as the new Secretary of State, has "very clear ideas of himself in service to......