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All Change And Decay
DESMOND ALBROW ALL is not ship-shape in the Tory household. The Conservatives have virtually lost Scotland and unless something remarkable turns up between now and the general......
A Web Of Controversy
IT would be a pity if the traditionalist opponents of Weaving the Web the secondary school religious education syllabus under fire for allegedly undermining the faith had it all......
Croatia 's Peril
THE call this week by the US bishops' conference for the Holy See to lend formal recognition to Croatia as an independent state is one that European leaders ingore at their......
It Is Always Rather Troubling When One Reads A Review
of a book with which one heartily disagrees. It is, however, even more disturbing when the presentation of a book in a review barely resembles the original. Such was my......
Uncatholic Schools
THREE cheers for Fr John Medcalf! ("An experiment in education" November 1). He has eloquently expressed what I have been trying to grapple with for so long, viz: how come we......
Points Of View
HAVE been led recently, through contact with Jewish friends, to an appreciation of Jewish humour in print, and would like to be able to offer them a reciprocal insight into the......
An Earlier Ecumenical First In Slough
I WAS interested to read (October 25) that at last the long-discussed ecumenical church in Milton Keynes is coming into existence, but was surprised to read that it will be the......
Out Of The Mouthes Of Babes And Infants
PETER Hebblethwaite in his Charterhouse Chronicle (November 8) might be interested in my brother's version of the Flail Mary: "...a monk swimming..." (He later went on to become......
Compromise With The Establishment
THE conclusion reached in the editorial (November 8) concerning integration of Catholics into the "mainstream of English life and the allpowerful establishment", even if it were......
True Significance Of Public Baptism
AT the sacrament of baptism we welcome a new member into the community of the church, and what better occasion than during a mass. After all, the mass is the main celebration of......
Britain And Its View Of Germans
AS an English librarian (now retired) who has worked in Germany and Austria over a period of eight years may I point out that it is simply not true to state that all German and......