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Numbers At Cromer Are Much The Same
I do riot wish to take sides in the issue raised in your columns about Fr Hacon of Cromer; I would rather seek to follow Bishop Clark's plea for conciliation by offering the......
Can You Help?
Five years ago a letter published in the Catholic Herald, and in church papers of other denominations, resulted in the formation of the Julian Meetings: groups of people meeting......
Defence Of Ncp
In your Sidetract column of April 14 you printed an article by Alex Cosgrave on the habit of the hierarchy of assuming that they know best what the laity want and what is good......
Tell Mps To Disarm
It was with great interest that I read Mgr Bruce Kent's article of April 28 headed "UN disarmament session could change the world", and I fully support all he said in it. The......
Life's Prize 'helps Torturers'
In the March edition of Life News there is an item concerning a Scottish group which is organising a raffle for which the first prize is a trip to the World Cup Finals in......
Race Plea
What happened in your parish to the St George's Day sign-in against racialism, which our bishops urged us to support? In this city, as tar as I Can ascertain, precisely nothing.......
We Who Stay
Richard Dowden writes in his article"What is done for priests who leave'?" (May 5): "It has often been the best and the brightest who have departed ..." This would seem to imply......
If We Are Wrong
Fr. J. Abberton's letter of April 28 makes an important point in the last paragraph. One big difficulty in changing the Church's laws is that people who have made sacrifices,......
What Are Gay Rights?
I refer to the report in your issue of April 28 under the heading "Gay rights charter welcomed", which mentions a statement, "Towards a Charter of Homosexual Rights" issued......
Catholic Defence
In the matter of the proposed permissive legislation, the Catholic bishops of Ireland seem to have taken a neutral stand. If this.is so,! would submit that to imagine that there......
Thanks For Abuse Campaign
May 1, through the courtesy of your columns, thank all those many' of your readers who worked so valiantly to collect signatures for the ABUSE petition, against pornography......