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What Do We Want Of Our Christian Churches?
WHAT DO WE EXPECT OF OUR Church? The furore that broke out over the Archbishop of Canterbury's criticism of what he considers "a fragmented, divided society" points to the new......
Richard Cockett
Video nasties are bad for our children's health I AM WRITING THIS COLUMN on the day before MPs are due to vote on David Alton's amendment dealing with "ultra-violent" videos to......
Letters To The Editor
Injustices still rife in Northern Ireland Catholic guidelines on sex education I WRITE TO SUPPORT the content of Paul Donovan's article (Catholic Herald, 8 April, 1994). Groups......
Rightly Or Wrongly, One
gains the impression from Piers McGrandle's report of the Catholic Herald "Conference on Sex Education" that little mention was made of parental responsibility in this field,......
Midwife Strikes Back And Dispels Myths
AS A MIDWIFE, I sin writing to you after reading the "Charterhouse Chronicle" on fatherhood 1 Paul Pickering, (Catholic Herald, 1 April, 1994.) I'd like to make a few points,......
Shepherds And Sheep Flock Together
ALICE THOMAS ELLIS writes (Catholic Herald, 25 March): "What can the flock do when the shepherd prefers to spend his time chatting with the wolf?" Didn't the religious......
East Tinior And Our Role In Massacres
SURELY THE LETTERS FROM Peter Byrne, deploring the lack of Catholic Church response to the dire situation in East Timor, and David Somerville, criticising Stonyhurst College's......
Portal() Questions And Answers
I SEE IN YOUR ARTICLE on the death of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, Prelate of Opus Del, the absurd attribution of "fascist tendencies" has been repeated from elsewhere. (Catholic......
Black Madonna Pictures Are Sought
IF ANY CATHOLIC HERALD readers have spare pictures of Our Lady of any sort, especially the Black Madonna, I would be most grateful to receive them for my personal devotion. Also......
And Moreover...
IT IS FORTUNATE FOR many of your contributors that women are not black as their comments would gain them long prison sentences. It is about time that the Church's exception from......