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Wilde's Paradoxical Faith
If a man is not your friend then he is your foe; but if a man is not your foe he must be your friend. The best means of offence is surrender. If you want to get to the head of......
The Polish Church Must Come To Terms With The Past
The stunning resignation of the Archbishop of Warsaw during his first public Mass last weekend marks a new and troubling era for Polish Catholicism. This dramatic episode......
Pastor Iinentus
A jerky start to the new year ir anuary, of course, takes its name from Janus, the Roman god who had one face looking forward and one back, a little like the taxman whose demand......
S Ago This Week
THE SHAME of a Catholic child repeated every day — at a nonCatholic school who has to leave the classroom when religious instruction is about to begin was described by Bishop......
The Church Has Always Accepted The Need For The Death...
From Mr Michael Petek SIR — Cardinal Martino (Report, January 7) is evidently prepared to put the death penalty in the same box as abortion. experimentation on embryos and......
Illogical Thinking
From Mrs M M FitzGerald SIR — Having listened to Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor's pastoral letter last Sunday. I was struck by the illogical thinking at the heart of it. He gave as......
Early Church Values
From Mr Brian Sexton SIR — Ray Knight (Letters, December 15) writes: "Pope John XXIII's ... vision was a return to the values of the early Church." From what values has the......
A Flawed, But Sincere Christmas Story
From Mr Jozef Bubez SIR — Having seen The Nativity Story a few days ago, the review by Freddie Sayers (December 15) appears to me at least to be unjustifiably negative. Miracles......
An Anglican Perspective On The Old Rite
From the Revd J E Potter SIR — As an Anglican reader of The Catholic Herald I have been intrigued by the reports of the Pope's intention to allow Catholic priests to celebrate......
Voting Like A Catholic
From Miss Katherine Gray SIR — Anthony Hofler (Letters, December 15) is right to be sceptical of Tony Blair being "a Catholic in all but name". The Prime Minister's criticism of......
Miracles Of Fatima
From the national president of the World Apostolate of Fatima in England and Wales SIR — In his fine article on Fatima in the Christmastide supplement, Kevin Grant said that......