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Remarks on Vatican newspaper were offensive

DESMOND ALBROW'S article "Now the Vatican Voice in Britain" (March 29) is offensive, and it ill-becomes a Catholic newspaper.
Your characterising o f
Osservatore Romano as the Pravda of the Catholic Church, while subtly appealing to your Left-wing readers, is insulting to Rome and disgusting to your general readers.
Your claim that everyone knows that you do not operate in a free market is quite unsubstantiated; and, even if it were true, the implication that your paper deserves support not purely on merit is foolish and unworthy of the Catholic Press.
You said it; undoubtedly. you are unduly jaundiced and prickly. You have only yourself to blame. If you had given more and better coverage to the Pope's weekly addresses Urbi et Orbi, and other allocutions, this new development might not have happened.
A. J. Maguire Rustington. Sussex.
UNDER the colonnade of St. Peter's Rome, each Saturday. I buy the CATHOLIC HERAT D, published the previous day. There are always several copies on sale, and a few of another rather popular English Catholic paper.
By the end of the week, the copies of the CATHOLIC HERALD seem to have been sold out. Like other Englishmen in permanent residence in Rome, I look forward to the opportunity of reading seriously about the Church in England.
With due respects to your delightful cartoonist, John Ryan, neither he nor you will need to publish in Italian. It is in English that we want our national Catholic paper.
I speak and read Italian, and each week I have the Osser%wore Romano. but it does not give news about the English Catholic scene—nor, presumably, will its English edition. How can it? In Rome we rely on the English Catholic Press for English news; Rome is too far away to supply this accurately.
Nor can we have comment geared to the English intelligence written by Signor Oswaido Romano that will be a suitable substitute for Desmond Albrow, Norman St. John-Stevas, Kevin Mayhew, and many others who are my friends in print.
In these days of decentralisation it does seem strange that there should appear to be need for a "Roman" Catholic paper.
J. MacDonald-Wavertree Via della Conciliazone,
Rome.
Ssoon after the Budget withthe consequent rise in costs, the intrusion of a foreign journal such as the Osservatore Romano in our market appears to be untimely.
In any circumstances, however, there is no need for its presence in the United Kingdom. We already have a good, reliable, truthful and independent Catholic press, which cannot afford in these days to have unnecessary financial competition.
John Slater (Organist) Farnborough Abbey
Thank you
Please may 1, through the columns of your paper, say "thank you" to all the kind readers (many of them anonymous; one, at least, an old age pensioner) who sent such generous donations in response to the appeal on March 15 for money to rebuild the Zulu orphanage in Newcastle, Natal.
Over £33 has now been received, and this will be forwarded to Fr. Pacificus Tait, 0.F.M., this week. In one of his letters to us, Fr. Tait said that "the children say the Rosary each day for the good people who help them."
We are truly grateful for the interest people have shown. May God bless them all.
Theresa McCarthy 3 Herbert Road,
Sheffield.
Trading stamps
WOULD it be possible to ask your readers for their help on behalf of the Save the Children Campaign? For the past five weeks we have been collecting trading stamps, both green and pink. We have 400,000 at the moment. These are to be used to aid leukaemia sufferers, help purchase a guide-dog for the blind, and help furnish our own school library. We would very much like to reach the 1,000,000.
Our own members have managed to collect these 400.000, and we feel now appealing to a larger public we may have a good response.
Nicholas Newton '66 Club, S.. Mary's College, Bitterne Perk, Southampton.




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