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Another Irish Missionary Gives His Life For Christ
T he murder of Fr Jeremiah Roche, a 68-year-old Irish missionary in Kenya, provides us with a horrifying illustration of the dangers faced by priests and religious in Africa.......
Darwin Should Not Be Blamed For Deep-rooted Racism In...
From Mr Richard Heron SIR – Your shock-horror headline “Darwin’s idea has cost lives” is followed by the even more emotive “the naturalist is a secular saint yet he has left a......
Canonising Latin Ronald Knox’s Clear-headed Conversion
From Mr Tom McIntyre SIR – Fr Leo Chamberlain (Letters, December 4) thinks he was “mistaken” to value our plain English Mass. Hardly. Plainness in prayer is a divine command.......
From Mr John Jolliffe Sir – Jonathan Wright’s Review...
11) of Ronald Knox and English Catholicism by Fr Terry Tastard made some strangely misleading comments, including the following: “Conversion is often a muddled business.” It is......
Facts And Fiction
SIR – Ed Balls says that an emphasis on marriage is “old-fashioned”. Logically, there are three possibilities. Either he is more concerned to be “with-it” than to do what’s best......
Our Good Priests
From Kathleen Hamilton SIR – Responding to the persistent media coverage of the ongoing investigation into the horrifying history of scandalous child abuse by sick-minded clergy......
Cherie’s Guidance
From Dr Helen Davies SIR – Cherie Blair is entitled to her own views on what she calls “the natural form of contraception” (Report, December 11). What she is not entitled to do......
This Is From A Collection Of 52 Poems Entitled Prayer
published in pamphlet by Impress (156), 95 Wilton Road, London SW1V 1BZ. Please send your address and £5 in stamps It is a long time since I went to Confession and I feel that......
Staying In Bed
From Mr Nicolas J Bellord SIR – Regarding Hugh David’s discussion (School Board, November 20) of allowing school children to get up later perhaps we should remember René......
Yours Faithfully,
A totalitarian state From Mr M J Smith SIR – I wonder whether those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of their country in the two world wars, which we commemorate......
Common Language
From Mr Tony Foley SIR – I was puzzled by Fr Paul Browne’s statement (Letters, December 11) that “With your Spirit” is not English as quite recently I was in St Paul’s for......
The First Fathers
From the chairman of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice SIR – I am surprised to see James Maurice’s claim (Letters, December 11) that Catholics copied Anglicans in calling their clergy......
From Professor Philip Booth, Editorial And Programme...
Institute of Economic Affairs SIR – Bishop Kenney (Features, December 4) invites us to think about what it means to say that “capital has no rights”. It would, indeed, be......
The Cardinal And The Turtles
E ven Catholics who eat meat (that is, the vast majority of us) tend to assume that vegetarians have the moral edge over us; that, if we ourselves could cure ourselves of our......