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Churches That Cash In On Tolerance
THERE is a powerful appeal in the irrational, the absolute and the intolerant. A very large number of people would say that therein lies, precisely, the appeal of the Catholic......
Reigning On The Seventh Day
THEN THERE are the Seventh Day Adventists. They keep Saturday as the true Sabbath. After all it was that dubious Emperor Constantine who made Sunday our holy day. They were......
Callers At The Front Door
WE HAVE in the country and had in London regular visits each year from nuns. There is a proper drill for this when they come in person. Offer them the use of the bathroom and......
Smashing Up The Family
OF THESE two faiths, I have nothing intentionally uncharitable to say. But the taste for further and further irrationality and intolerance and easy and immediate personal......
Conspiracy Of Music
THE OTHER week, writing about English Catholic church music of the recusant times, 1 wrote that it is doubtful that William Byrd, the great Catholic unpersecuted composer of......
Fire In The Cathedral
I HAVE taken the following item straight from the "Iberian Daily." I thought Spain was hot and baroque confessionals stifling. But, if it appears in print, it must of course be......
The Minority' Language
THERE ARE about 140,000 Catholics in Wales and of those about 1,000, with Bishop Langton Fox of Menevia and a few priests, are Welsh speaking. The Reformation made a pretty......
Long Haul On The Way To Church
A 50-yard river crossing can put a bar on Sunday church observance for Catholics living on the shores of the rivers Blackwater and Bann in Northern Ireland. The trouble is......