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Why The Pope May Well Ask The Cardinal To Stay On
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor's comments after meeting the Pope this week seem to have been pretty carefully chosen. Asked about his retirement, the Cardinal confirmed that,......
Going Down A Negative Path Couples Find Themselves...
a variety of reasons: perhaps they started in a casual, or even experimental, relationship and have seen no point in formalising matters; perhaps they are ignorant of their......
Dogmatic. Hobbes, A Principal Architect Of Modern...
played a role in turning "dogma", a revealed truth defined by the Church, into a dirty word. In a letter to the Earl of Newcastle, Hobbes delineates two kinds of learning:......
Pastor Riventus
The cost of being a pilgrim / have been visiting a poor man who has been in and out of hospital for several months. Each time his GP sends him in complaining of acute pain in......
Letters To The Editor
Church teaching should inspire us to overturn an unjust tax system From Mr Henry Law SIR — Ed West (Comment, October 6) voiced what I have long thought about the tax system: it......
Sloppy History
From Mr Neil Addison SIR — In his letter (October 6) on the subject of the Pope's Regensburg lecture Fr Neil Evans says that "with hindsight" the Pope was trying to cover too......
From Fr Ian Dickie
SIR— lain sure I am not alone among the College of Clergy of this great Diocese of Westminster in resenting the outside interference in the choice of our next archbishop......
From Mr John Mccarthy Sir — Trawling Through My Catholic
Heralds after returning from holiday, the article by Pastor Iuventus, entitled "A tacky farewell to this life" (September 15), caught my eye. I believe the crematorium he speaks......
From Mrs Elizabeth Hardcastle Sir — In The Churchyards Which
surround many Anglican churches most headstones face east and the feet of those interred point east so that they face the dawn, symbolic of the resurrection. However. an......
From Miss Katherine Gray Sir — I Am Disturbed By
what seems to be an unofficial policy in BBC coverage of Christianity in general. The corporation's journalists constantly refer to Christians with the addition of an......
From Mr Tom Van Der Linden Sir — I Could
not agree with you more that "Taxpayers' money should not be used to demonise the Pope" (Leading article, October 6) We should respond by turning off our television sets for......
A Mirror Of Justice
Name and address withheld SIR — Your report (September 15) on the National Conference of Priests' discussion concerning the application of Nolan rules is interesting. For some......
Grace And The Law
From Mrs Anne Marie Homberger SIR — Quentin de la Bedoyere is confident (Charterhouse Clunnicle, September 29) that at a "Eucharist" celebrated by a Methodist minister with......