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Pontius Pilate, A Premature Post-modernist?
John Battle MP ON Good Friday the editorial in the Belfast Irish News compared the "tragic figure" of Gordon Wilson, paraded by some as a naive fool this week, with Chris' t as......
Dominicans Speak Of Fox
YOU report on the criticisms made by the council of the Dutch Dominican Province of the dismissal from the Order of Fr Matthew Fox (Catholic Herald, 2 April). In the interest of......
Ireland Vacuum Needs Filling
I QUOTE your leader on "The Vacuum in Ireland" (Catholic Herald, 2 April): "The British Government must act now. The Catholic hierarchy must speak out now". Maybe so, but you......
Parish Funds: Contrasting Views
THE next time I give my fellow parishioner Richard Dowden .(Charterhouse Chronicle, Catholic Herald, 2 April) the kiss of peace it will be with a certain gritting of the teeth.......
Death Penalty Row Must Not Hide The Importance Of The New...
I AM surprised Larry Murphy makes so much of the death penalty in the new catechism. (Catholic Herald, 24 March). The new catechism barely refers to it and it certainly does not......
Unveils History
IT WAS good to read Murray White's report of the Requiem Mass offered by Bishop Leo McCartie (Catholic Herald, 2 April) for the souls of the three penal age priests buried in......
What A Strange Article Written By Alice Thomas Ellis...
With regards to the hunt saboteurs, I have lived on a farm for 17 years, and also ride horses. It amazes me just how many saboteurs, or sabs, I've met over the years do actually......
Patten's Waterloo
JOHN Patten has the right goal but is taking the wrong path to reach it. Who could quibble with the Education Secretary's aim to resurrect the ABCs of education — English,......
Vatican 'yes'
CAUTIOUS but sincere. the Vatican welcome to Anglican priests seeking conversion came just before Faster. With Rome saying yes, all eyes are now on the Catholic hierarchy of......