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Radicals And Conservatives Leave Puebla Content
Julian Filochowski writes: Puebla is over. After a final tense week, full of heated argument, with the mood of prelates, theologians and even journalists fluctuating daily......
Cardinal Calls For Action To Help The Low-paid
by John Carey Cardinal Basil Hume has urged immediate action to improve the wages of low paid workers in a way that will not prejudice the fight against inflation. His call......
Pastoral Congress Priorities Sought
The National Pastoral Congress Committee has sent out 110,000 leaflets on the agenda for the Congress asking for people to tick their top six priorities and return them to the......
Encyclical On Its Way?
Michael Wilson writes: Pope John Paul II is reportedly nearing completion of his first encyclical which, say Vatican sources, will he brought out before Easter. This encyclical......
Rumours Of Papal Visit Are Squashed
By Frances Gumley Rumours that the Pope plans to visit Britain next year have been squashed by Church sources in Britain and the Vatican. It was suggested that the Pope might......
Priest's Living Wage £50 A Week Bishop
Every priest should be guaranteed a wage of £50 a week said Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway in a pastoral letter this week. Steps are being taken in the Galway diocese to ensure......
The Herald Says
THE COMMITMENT of the Catholic community to the National Pastoral Congress will be judged, at least in the interim, by the number of replies to the leaflet on priorities which......