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Graham Greene
He helps us not to be smug Sia,-Thank you for confirming my own views about the orthodoxy of certain propositions and situations in Graham Greene's recent work. If I am right in......
Vigour In Church Art
Stn.-I think the main point is not if a statue is anatomically right or not. Certainly it should be anatomically mainly right, otherwise it is too subjective. The primitives......
Children And Animals
SIR,-May I, through your paper, make a plea to parents and teachers to inculcate kindness to animals? On the children's page of the May number of Carmel is told a true story of......
Cultural Art Centre?
Praise for Ashley Gallery siR, I read with interest the letter from "A Catholic Artist" in your May 15 issue, and wonder whether our friend does not realise that there is such a......
Knowledge Of God
SIR.-To say that "We can know that God is; not what He is" in answer to my letter, is to use an expression from St. Thomas in a very different sense from that intended by him.......
Evening Mass Welcome
SIR,-IS it not a point of academic rather than real importance, to consider that it is more fitting to offer to God the first rather than the fast hours of the day. To Him.......
Self-restrai Ut
Stis-Joan Penelope Grant dcmands an answer. Self-restraint is not the same as total abstinence in this as in alcohol. I suspect those who sneer at "near-saints" of being the......
Prayer After The Queen's Coronation Sir.-is It Too Much To
see in the considerably improved international situation an answer to the millions of prayers which have been offered to God on the occasion of Her Majesty's Coronation? The......
Ireland And Britain
A Catholic Duty SIR, Congratulations on your splendid le.;.ding article, "Coronation, Ireland, Commonwealth." I am sure that once the true facts of the Partition of Ireland are......
England : First Christian Church ?
Sta,-My attention was lately drawn to an article in Everybody's Weekly of April 11. 1951. which contains a number of statements purporting to support the thesis that Our Lord......
Mass Attendance Of Pupils
SIR.-What our devoted school teachers cannot do. of course, is to ask the parents to stand up and state why their children don't go to the sacrament. They would then discover......
Evolution Unproved
But Catholics can accept it SIR,-In reply to your comment on my last letter, I agree that so long as a Catholic believes in the immediate creation of souls by God, he saves......
Pure Chance And The Natural Order
S1R,-In a recent issue you published a reply to the query, "Does not the idea of 'pure chance destroy the very possibility of scientific discovery, which depends on the......
Marshal Petain
su,,-1 do not wish to take undue advantage of the hospitality which you have so kindly given me in your columns. but I feel it my duty to answer the criticism of Pere Louis......
Needs Of Our Priests
Making ends meet Sta.-The average priest is neither so poor nor so rich as your correspondents suggest. There are parishes where there is no question of allotting even £40 as......
Country Clergy
Stn.-It would appear from the tone of Fr. Wares letter that he did not read what Bishop Petit of Menevia said not long ago about the poverty of some of the priests in country......
A Curate's Budget
Sta.-Without wishing to voice a complaint, may one other assistant priest offer a word of enlightenment? If I may say so. Fr. Ware seems to have misrepresented our position......
Archbishop Slipyj
S1R,-In THE CATHOLIC HERALD Of March I. 1953, you referred to the further sentence by which the Russian Government imposed 17 more years of imprisonment in Siberia on Archbishop......
"points From 1 Letters
A Benson Society May I be allowed to support the formation of a Benson Society? Many Catholics of my generation have a somewhat supercilious attitude towards the works of......
Catholic Evidence
Answers to your Questions Wai Christ forced to die on the Cross? Why was His prayer in the Garden refused? r - IHRIST'S prayer in the Garden was not refused; His prayer was that......