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Novena For Defence Of Human Life
M AY I seek the hospitality of your correspondence columns to ask for support for a Novena starting on December 20? The Hierarchy have asked that the Feast of the Holy Innocents......
Abortion Issues
O N the question of abortion, it seems to me there are two separate issues involved which have been blurred by the very emotive discussions on the subject— the rights of the......
Fr. Borrelli
IT seems to me that the corn placency mentioned in Mrs. Ward's letter of November 27 has had far too many shakes recently. I think the reason there appeared to be so little......
Rush To Defend F Rom The Letters In Reply To John
D. Sheridan's (November 13) it is.easy to see that the Mid-Ulster M.P. has a strong following—ready to defend her when she isn't even attacked. Perhaps it's as R. W. Twigg......
Mugful Of Malcolm: Shadow-boxing By John Braine
I FEEL some comments are called for on your special Christmas number (December 4). The ingenuity of H. R. F. Keating was well matched by the "innocence" of Bishop Clark, while......
The Self-righteous Right Wingery Of John Braine, On The...
hand, is getting boring, I had hoped that, for once, he would give his reflexes and complexes a rest, and not try to prove, with mighty shadowboxing swipes at his friends the......
Plight Of Real Australians
A S an Australian, I am rather ashamed to have to support Kerry Stephenson's article of November 27 on the plight of the Australian aborigine. I do so in the hope that publicity......
Inter-church Families
IN your issue of November 27 you report on the recent Spode conference for interChurch families and on its decision to organise groups of such families in different parts of the......
Perfect Contrition
that, in loving him, we love God the Father; by doing this we are implicitly sorry for our sins and we ask forgiveness for them. An Act of Perfect Con trition is a simple and......
Question And
ANSWER Conducted by Fr. JOHN SYMON Question—/ am a convert and I often hear Catholics speaking about something called an Act of Perfect Contrition. What is this, and is it very......
Martyrs For
faith—not conscience E VEN if leaning over hackwards in order to go forward in the ecumenical spirit of the times it a suitable posture, it seems to -me that there is same......
"h Umour Is The Safety Valve Of A Nation" And There
is no doubt that John Ryan's cartoons constitute such a safety valve for many readers of the CATHOLIC Hawaii And what marvellous value for money he gave us in the issue of......
I Have Just Read The Dec, 4 Edition Of The
CATHOLIC Hallam and I would like to say firstly I am very glad that Father Hebblethwaite is not in the diocese of Washington, and secondly I am another reader who finds John......
Nuns' Dress
O N the subject of the nuns changing in dress, may I write, just once more, to res pond to Sr. Buenton's letter in your paper of December 4, as two points in this Sistet's......
A Papal V.c.?
I DON - I' know whethei Papa] awards are given to priests and hishops. But if they are surely Bishop Galvin. the restrainer of Pope Paul's would he assassin shoidd be ronsi......