Page 1, 9th July 1971

9th July 1971
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Back-down By Commission On Basic Law

FROM ALAN McELWAIN IN VATICAN CITY T 'HERE is a distinct impression in Vatican circles that, because of strenuous opposition to Lex Fundamentalis, a proposed basic law for......

Anglicans, Agnostics Want Retention Of Old Rite

BY A STAFF REPORTER WO Anglican bishops, several agnostics and a number of Catholics are among some 80 people in British public and cultural life who have signed a powerful plea......

English Province Supports Fr. Desmond

THE English province of the Order of Friars Minor has issued a statement of support for Fr. Cosmas Desmond, the 35 year old London born Franciscan who was placed under house......

Priests Call Meeting Over Archbishop's Attack

BY A STAFF REPORTER A GROUP of priests in the Diocese of Brentwood will meet next Monday to discuss the possibility of a formal protest to the hierarchy over comments by......

American Nun Gets High Vatican Post

A N American nun has been appointed to the second highest post ever held by a woman in the Vatican. it was announced on Monday in the Vatican News Bulletin that Sister Thaddeak......

Correction

In our report last week of a meeting of the Catholic Renewal movement, Dr. Paul Black was described as Chairroan of the National Council for the Lay Apostolate. This position is......

Churches 'active' In S. Sudan

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I N the Southern Sudan. from where hundreds of Catholic and Anglican missionaries were expelled in 1964 by the country's Moslem leaders, the......

Pope Formulates New Rules On Bible Studies

IN an Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio this week establishing new laws to regulate the Pontifical Biblical Cornmission, Pope Paul said that the Scriptures had been entrusted......