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Trust In God But Face The Facts
ONE OF the most interesting developments of the past month has been the organising of quite impressive antinuclear weapons demonstrations in part of the Soviet Empire. They......
Why The Hornsby-smith Distress Signal Is Vital If The...
NO .DOUBT we will be told in due course the principle on which Dr Hornsby-Smith's questionnaire was sent. The representative nature of the replies will in any case depend on how......
As A Delegate To The Npc I Too Received The
questionnaire which contained a list of alternative theological propositions which we were asked to chose from. In two instances at least the "modern — alternative was......
Rally Round
At a recent conference organised by this Federation a retired senior inspector of schools. who is an Anglican. exhorted us to hold on to our schools at all costs. "You are the......
A Sprinkling Of English Bishops
I HAVE a great deal of respect for the holiness of the Pope and it saddens me to see time and again little indications that His Holiness lacks sympathy for the English. I hope......
Paisley Progress
LISTENING to the BBC radio Four series Priestlands ProgroN on Sunday November 22 I thought my ears were deceiving me upon hearing the Anglican spokesman connected with St.......
Take A Letter
IT HAS BEEN announced in Parliament that a "discussion document" is to be published early in 1982 with proposals to allow licensed brothels. As prostitution is an evil any......
Please Help
THE PLIGHT of six Catholics jailed in Czechoslovakia for producing home made copies of papal encyclicals, children's catechisms and other religious literature is well-known.......
Campion The Wonder Priest
CONGRATULATIONS to BBC Four on the excellent programme about Edmund Campion on December I. It came over as a generous and vivid profile of a great priest. With a Catholic to......
Clarifying The Tridentine Mass
YOUR REPORT November 27, Plea for old Mass was somewhat misleading in saying that in )974 Cardinal Heenan granted to all Catholics the right to request a Tridentine Requiem......
To Cry Aloud Or Not To Cry Aloud
I AGREE whole-heartedly with Rosalind Maskell's views on hymns at Sunday Mass, especially when they are sung all through the Offertory and immediately after Communion. The......
Your Generous
A LOCAL newspaper has reported that 700 Catholics have sent a petition to their MP protesting against cuts in overseas aid. Now. when I was quite small I heard a missioner speak......
Contribution ...
of Catholic we have now,' he said: "Spineless jellyfish." If these 700 Catholics really care so deeply about the Third World, let them give generously to CAFOD. Caritas, Oxfam......
... With Thanks
REGARDING your leader, Dec 4, concerning the plight of Uganda over the past 18 months. CAFOD has made available Some £445,000 mostly in drugs and medical equiOrnent but also for......