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MANCHESTER, England (CNS): Catholics will be starved of the sacraments without an influx of new priests, Belgium's most senior Catholic churchman warned...

ROME (CNS): The Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul has proclaimed himself an unwitting instrument" in a divine plan, after hearing of the third secret of Fatima which the Pope believes foretold the 1981 assassination attempt...

A SISTER of Mercy has been named Queensland's Mother of the Year...

POPE John Paul II has ordered the publication of the so-called third secret of Fatima, following the revelation that he believes part of it was a direct reference to the 1981 attempt on his life...

BRISBANE'S Sisters of Mercy are holding an exhibition called "Women Making History: Sisters of Mercy in Queensland 1861-1901" as a prelude to the opening of the order's new heritage centre...

THE mainstays of the 1950 cinematic revival were the Cinemascope epics Demetrius and the Gladiator, Spartacus, Pompeii, Barabus, Ben Hur and The Robe...

IN this week's People profile, Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Peter Sheehan tells how he looks forward to the day when the institution can play a pivotal role in a post-economic rationalist world...

IN spite of the rain over the Easter break, 15 young people from Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast dedicated their holidays to shooting a film near Nambour...

FR David Pascoe (CL 30/4/00) writes: "Fr Hanlon equates laying on of hands with ordination and hence sees the latter as evident in the action accounted for in the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-8)...