Page 5, 14th September 1973

14th September 1973
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Minister And Vote On Abortion

From Sir Keith Joseph, M.P. In your issue of July 13 you correctly reported that I had said in answer to a question at St. Martin of Tours House, Islington, that I had voted......

Lease Of Life For Latin Lovers

Once again the innovations introduced at Vatican II are under attack. We are now told by Pope Paul that "The taste for .. , the traditional, where it merits being honoured, must......

Church Federalism

I regard Lady Stansgate's plea (August 31) for the concept of federalism in church relations with much sympathy and interest, but it does nothing to answer the principal......

Our Father

I wonder whether other ^atholics are as disturbed as I am at the irregularities in the recitation of the "Our Father" at Mass? Particularly at one form, which divides this most......

Neo

Fascism Why is Patrick McKiernan (September 7) polluting the arenas of discussion with diatribes against, of all things, nee-fascism? Maybe your correspondent has been reading......

Spode House

Twice a year at Spode House — the Dominican Conference Centre in Staffordshire — a week-end retreat takes place which should be more widely known. These week - ends set out to......

African Atrocities

In his letter of August 10 Fr. Adrian Hastings referred to my remarks that the Wiriyamu (Mozambique) massacre report read like a "carboncopy" or earlier reports of black African......

Reflection Twenty-fourth Sunday

Fr. Peter Coughlan Isaiah 50, 5-9: James 2, 1448: Mark 8, 27-35 Who is Jesus and what does following him mean? These are the key questions that St. Mark was concerned with......

Attack On Portugal

The obvious comment on Paul Johnson's attack on the Portuguese Government in your issue of August 31 is that, even if everything ever alleged against that government were true......

Family Reading

Recent issues of the Catholic Herald have been full of valuable reaaing matter. It should be a "must" purchase in the household of every Catholic family — now more than ever. K.......

Fr. Hugh Lavery

On June 29 last we published a "Reflection" piece which, as we acknowledged, had appeared over the editor, Fr. Brian Boyle's name, as an editorial in that month's issue of the......

Non

Catholic Schools I should like to to answer the charges made by C. H.' Sheill (August 31) about non-Catholic schools. Although educated mainly at Catholic schools, my happiest......

Gaudeamus Hodiel So The Holy Father Has At Last Acknowledged

publicly the urgent world-wide requests for the restoration of Latin Mass and Gregorian Chants. But the statement that such change would be a reversal of Vatican Council policy......

In Reference To The Report In Your Issue Of August

31 in which it was stated that the Pope said he was considering ways of reintroducing the traditional Latin and Gregorian chants into the liturgy, may I point out that the......