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The Liturgy And The People The Hymns We Sing
am glad . one of your readers has raised this question of hymns. The apparent apathy and indifference regarding the congregational rendering of the Liturgy is had enough, but 1......
Carols Throughout The Year
SIR,—While agreeing with Hugh Mont e gornery concerning our Catholic hymns I 4ik wo Jrniss many oppertunitiee provided for us, especially by not making use of ehe exceedingly......
Hymns, Catholic And Protestant
SIR,—May I doubt the statement that we should use Protestant hymns far more than we do—the reason given " for our own poverty in hymns is notorious " seems insufficient. Some of......
The Rosary—a Summing-up
Requirements of the Holy See SIR. — With your permission I would offer a final letter on the subject of the Rosary recitation at Mass. 1 du so in the hope of achieving an......
The Pope And Technical Progress
SIR—With great regret, I must dissociate myself from the view expressed by my friend Father Witcutt in your issue of today, and from the sky-scraper which he has balanced on an......
Gilbert Chesterton Memorial
SIR,—May I be allowed the opportunity of expressing in your columns my grateful thanks to the anonymous donors (many of small sums) who have shown their appreciation and......
Walsingham
Peregrinus should not be in any difficulty as to pilgrimages to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is only natural that the village of - Walsingham with its ruins and ancient well is......
" A Tale Of Two Cities"
SIR,—A recent general release A Tale of Two Cities is one which unquestionably fulfils the Holy Father's ideal for the cinema. Such is its nobility that it should sweep away the......
A Tramp Army
S1R,-1 notice an announcement that, in some parts of Yorkshire, the local police are not allowed to treat tramps as con victs, or rather, as evil-doers. This, of course, is as......
A Christian Social Work
Re-personalising England Through Charity, SIR,—I beg to proffer the suggestion that some movement should be set on foot to enable for instance, Catholic families, large ones......
Catholic Schools And The System
• beg to reply to Miss Weldon's letter (Catholic Herald, October 30). The " standards imposed by the government inspectorate " axe surely derived from the " obvious tendency to......
" Pax " And Co.
StR,—(1) When you state that " No distinction is made by Fax ' between objective rightness and subjective conviction," you mistake our position. " Pax " is not concerned with......
Irish Republicanism Ani Communism Reply To " Scottus"
SIR,—A Dhuine Nasal When Scottus first referred to Irish Republicans and Communism he didn't show enough of his head for me to hit it, but in his second letter, 6/ I I / 36, he......
A Personal Disclaimer
SIR, — In the comments made by the author of an article to which Professor Stockley takes objection in your issue of October 30, my name is mentioned as approving the teaching......
Points From
Letters The Church and Peace SIR,----The possibility of a " just " v (though " justifiable " is the less ambigui term) has never been seriously opposed Catholic tradition. For......
Defending The Church
SIR,—Can modern war ever achieve good end? " Saving civilisation by course to war," seems to ,me a contract tion in terms. For one thing, it assurr that we have some......
Anti-semitism
SIR,—May I ask Mr. Hugo Yardley wh he means by the word " anti-Semitism' Etymologically, it means opposition to dislike of people of Scrnitic origin inclu ing Arabs and Jews.......
Rye.
Bodily Attitudes in Church SIR,—For myself I am campaigning fi better and sharper burses. Let me e plain. Once upon a time there was a prie whose server at Mass was up to the......
Birth-rate And Employment
SIR,—Even apart from the moral aspec one does not need to be a pundit i economics to understand that birth-prevet tion is only another way of spelling ut employment. Children......