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Cults Inspire Rome To New Pastoral Plan
by Peter Stanford THE growth of cults or "new religious movements" can be put down in part to the Catholic Church's failure to meet the needs and aspirations of its members,......
Vatican Bank Reform Demand
WEST GERMAN Cardinal Joseph Hoffner has revived a recommendation he made three years ago that the V atican Bank should be put in the control of lay administrators. The effective......
Yugoslav Released
FR FERDO Vlasic, a Croatian Franciscan priest serving a fiveyear sentence in prison, has been released six months before the end of his sentence. Fr Vlasic was originally......
Economic 'pressures' Preferred By South African Hierarchy
Bishops outline apartheid options by Jack O'Sullivan THE ENGLISH and Welsh bishops have proposed that the Church, Government and business could break all, even indirect,......
Pope At Loggerheads With Italian Laity
by Desmond O'Grady in Rome POPE John Paul H is at loggerheads with Italian Catholic Action in a clash which is extremely significant in view of the worldwide Synod of Laity due......
Soviets Castigated For Nuclear Disaster
by James Allen THE head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, has appealed to Soviet authorities to allow relief supplies from Catholic agencies to be......
Fails To Quell Doubts
A "feasible plan" f o r reorganisation of Catholic secondary schools in west London is to be presented to the Westminster Council for Diocesan Affairs later this month. Full......
School Plan Substitutes Warm Up Merseyside Churches Will...
by an ecumenical delegation at Saturday's FA Cup Final between the city's two footballing giants — Liverpool and Everton. And the ecumenism will cover not only the religious......
Sanctuary Priests Face Jail
AMERICAN churches are rushing to join the Sanctuary movement in aid of political refugees from Central America despite the recent conviction of eight activists on charges of......