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The Vatican
Page 2 from 19th March 1999VATICAN CITY—In record time, the diocesan stage of the inquiry for the beatification of Pope Paul VI has been closed and documentation was......
Spiritual Head Of 550,000,000 Catholics
Page 5 from 7th June 1963THEY CALLED HIM GOOD POPE JOHN T HE Bei - gamo farmer's son who became His Holiness Pope John XXIII, spiritual head of the world's 550,000,000......
Letters To The Editor Our Correspondents Are Urged To Limit
Page 3 from 6th March 1936their letters to 300 words: otherwise they are liable to be shortened or omitted altogether. Letters must bear a name and address (not necessarily......
A Pilgrim's Progress In A World That Had Forgotten Its Story
Page 8 from 31st March 2006JOHN PAUL II: A BIBLICAL PILGRIM IN THE WORLD S ome 12 years ago the distinguished Lutheran theologian, Dr Robert Jenson, wrote a brilliant essay......
Nostalgia For Nihilism
Page 8 from 2nd May 2008T he BBC is enjoying one of its periodic spasms of second childhood as it relives for a new generation the events of 1968. In that famous Prague......
Austria . . Poland . . . Czechoslovakia . . .
Page 5 from 17th March 1939ARNOLD LUNN REFLECTS 0 N my way through to the World Ski Championship in Poland I stopped for a day in Vienna. " Is it going to rain. " I asked......
Gifts For Troubled Times Faulty If Osama Bin Laden And
Page 11 from 13th December 2002friends contrive to make this our last Christmas, then it's even more important to choose the right presents. Our chief book reviewer Quentin de la......
Great Gains In First Lap
Page 7 from 8th November 1963THIS week the Vatican Council reached the half-way stage of its second session. Some 23 more days of discussion remain before Pope Paul adjourns it......
Cheap Sneers At Peter Hain
Page 5 from 28th July 1972M Y WIFE (a South African) and I (a Rhodesian) were gratified to read Douglas Brown's sympathetic article (June 23) on the GovernmentUniversity......
Ffp Words Out Of The Mouth Of Our Cardinal Hume
Page 8 from 4th February 1977AMONG the many bodies of which Cardinal Hume is president is the Catholic . Writers' Guild. It meets from time to time whenever, in fact, it has......