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Black And White Assumes More
"WE had been the first aircraft ever to land at Heathrow" is the claim made by former Warrant Officer A C Smith in "Out of the Blue" edited by Laddie Lucas. It is an amazing......
Baker's Plans Will Exclude Re From Core Curriculum
I AM extremely concerned about the effect of the proposed national curriculum on pupils in Catholic secondary schools, particularly those preparing for public examinations in......
Dowry For A Wronged Woman
MANY of your readers and in particular Lancashire Catholics, will welcome the letter you publish from the Bishop of Lancaster (July 31). The recent (June 6) worldwide TV "Prayer......
Colonial Rules Ok
Having been Chairman of the British Portuguese Parliamentary Group since 1979 and Vice Chairman for many years before that, I believe I am as much in touch with Portuguese views......
Cashing In On Abortion A Call For Your Comments
YOUR readers will be interested to know that Nicholas Winterton MP has drawn a place in the Ballot for Private Members Bills and that when the House of Commons returns at the......
Think For Yourself
FR John Berry, in two long letters (June 26 and July 31), tells us that Fr Charles Curran and all of us must accept unquestioningly not only the infallible teaching of the......
Anti-semitism
YOUR leader (August 7) seemed very guardedly to suggest that American Jews might be responsible for causing anti semitism in Austria. Hatred of any kind is to be abhored and......
Reluctantly Into The Female Cross-fire
HAVING not really intended to enter the fray with Catholic feminists over the question of women priests, it nevertheless seems that I have no option but to throw a few verbal......
Precious Feast Day
IT was mentioned in your editorial (July 17) that there was no actual feast day in connection with the devotion of the precious. blood. There used to be — July 1 was the day. I......
Platoon: A Two Man War
CLIVE Fisher's review of the film Platoon (May 8), seems to have misunderstood the movie. There was no enemy, in the sense we usually think of. The war, if you want to call it......
No Faith Behind Closed Doors
Viewpoint IF, as may well be, the editor was being approached to become a freemason about the same time as I was appointed Chaplain, as an Anglican parson, to the Royal Masonic......
Loyalty In The Face Of All
CONGRATULATIONS on your really excellent leader on St Alphonsus Ligouri (July 31). As you so rightly state, his example of loyalty through trials and tribulations sets a......