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Abortion Proviso Halts Advertising Campaign
THE Department of Health has ordered Trent Regional Health Authority to rethink an advertising campaign aimed at recruiting two gynaecological consultants because those who......
Poll Tax Evaders May Form `underclass' Warn Clerics
by Marlin Newland THOSE hardest hit by recent benefits cuts may give up their most basic social and civil rights in a bid to avoid paying the new poll tax, senior Catholic......
Dominicans Defend Pm Poem
A POEM in the distinguished Dominican theological journal New Blackfriars which uses sexual imagery to ridicule Mrs Thatcher's policies has caused a storm of protest from the......
Moore In Pensioners' Row
SOCIAL Services Secretary John Moore became embroiled in another dispute with caring agencies this week when he asserted that "it is no longer true that being a pensioner tends......
Dom Bede Speaks In The Light Of The East
CHRISTIANITY'S need to discover the sense of the sacred that pervades eastern religions is to be examined by Dom Bede Griffiths OSB (pictured above) when he delivers the annual......
Moss Side Protests
A RESOURCE centre to coordinate the exchange of information from Catholic archives in Britain and Ireland was suggested at last week's annual conference of the Catholic Archives......
From The Bishops' Diaries
SOUTHWARK Archdiocese's ongoing attempts to boost the office of Permanent Deacon will receive fresh impetus next week when Auxiliary Bishop Howard Tripp confers the ministry of......
On Yer Bike Youth Workers
OXFORD Youth Workers waved goodbye to its first graduates this month as (left to right) Jim Barker, Ian John, Karen Mayes and Judith Levermore cycled off into the sunset. The......
Cleric In Car Caper
A COMPANY director from Worksop, Nottinghamshire got a nasty shock last week when he was told that a priest had driven off in his BMW. Parish priest of St Francis Church, Leeds,......
Homeless Health Plea
MANY single homeless have trouble getting adequate health care says a new report published this week by the Policy Studies Institute. Because alcohol related and mental health......
Coming Events
A special weekend retreat to celebrate "reconciliation in Jesus" will be staged at the national shrine of St Cuthbert Mayne in Launceston from June 24-25. Details from Fr......
Obituary
Fr Harold Pacey, a late vocation who spent much of his ministry in Sudan, died recently aged 79. Born in Earlsfield in the Archdiocese of Southwark, Fr Pacey went to Osterley in......