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A Convert Looks At 'the Church 2000'
With reference to Fr Bernard Davenport's remarks in his letter of March 1 on The Church 2000, as one of the laity I would like to make it few points. To me, the report was quite......
Catholic Dialogue With Marxists 'will Continue'
May .1 be permitted to cornment on the report of your issue of March I headlined "Cornmunist answer to Cardinal's pastoral"? As reported in the press, Cardinal Heenan's letter......
Who Benefits From Pax Christi And Bcc?
Mr Erik Pearse, the General Secretary of the Commission for International Justice and Peace (March 8) objects to Your correspondent Mr Wade (March 1) criticising the......
'providential Departure
Qi In iestio l i k es ' ? t " My'recStk;os 'Any reproved Mr Enoch Powell for having "in an unseemly manner" expressed satisfaction at the election result. In return he was......
Oil Crisis
I read Erik Pearse's article (February 15) on the oil crisis with growing delight. At last I thought — the Catholic Herald is giving publicity to what is the most urgent problem......
Useful Register Of Mps
Your list of Catholic MN (March 8) of' this House of Commons should become most useful to the many members of the many Christian groups supposedly active against the decline of......
Tina's Dress
I wish to protest about the immodest picture on the back page of your March 8 issue, Miss Philomena Reynolds' lowcut gown was the sort of picture we have come to associate with......
Is The Sarum Rite In 'suspended Animation'?
In pre-Reformation England the common rite of the leitin Mass was that of usum praeelara et insignis eeclesia Sarishuriensis. There were other local "uses", e.g., those of York,......
Simon Community Was First With London 'soup Run
I welcome the spotlight by Michael Duggan on the "skipperer" and "dosser" (March I), but there is an error that needs to be corrected, as it will only confuse the many Catholic......
Malaise Within The Church
I would like to thank you for your coverage of letters in the March 1 edition many of them relating to the malaise within the Church. The authors of "The Church 2000" do seem to......
Thank You, Father!
Thanks are due to Fr. Bernard Davenport for his excellent, and true, letter of March I on "The Church 2000" and to you for publishing it. As he says, "consultation has indeed......
Reasons For Decline In Reverence
The writer of the letter signed D. G. Galvin (March I). expressing some reasons for the decline of reverence in the Church, did not mention the fact that in many of our churches......
One Body Left Out Of 'amnesty'
Mgr Kent, in his article of March 1 on reconciliation, suggests a year of "ecclesiastical amnesty," and says that every diocese should invite back expriests, nuns and militant......
Why Not Use Those Empty Front Pews?
I have a question which has puzzled me for years, and I wonder what your readers will have to say about it. Why seat people dotted around in a large, empty church, in side......
Too Shy To Forward Comments?
Isn't it amazing how some people undervalue themselves! We have heard that groups of people have been meeting to discuss "The Church 2000" but have felt shy about sending in......
Fra Meworks
It is not very important, I suppose, but it is a pity that Stella McGill, in her letter of March 8, had to write that Beethoven, Brahrns and Mozart kept "within the musical......