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Into The Abyss
A national bioethics committee is needed T HREE MONTHS AGO we urged that a broadly based committee to review the whole area of bioethics should be set up without delay. The......
Aren’t You Sick Of It?
The Da Vinci Code, that is A S WE REPORT today, a nun has protested at the filming of the Hollywood film of The Da Vinci Code in Lincoln Cathedral. Whether we will carry any......
50 Years Ago This Week
“I HAVE bought a mountain – but I have not paid for it.” This is the challenge sounded in a special bulletin by Bishop Thomas Pearson, auxiliary for the Lancaster diocese, to......
Letters To The Editor
Living liturgy, dead language From Ms Mary Fox SIR – The prospects for the new liturgy are not exactly hopeful (report, Aug 12), hampered as they are by the Church’s fixation......
Talking Of Pain
From Mrs M Halliwell SIR – We are frequently invited to contemplate the “pain” of divorced and remarried Catholics who would like the Church to accommodate their personal......
Does We Share The Errors Of Islam And Protestantism?
From Mr Piers Paul Read......
Sir – John Laughland (comment, Aug 12) Is Right To
say that Catholics by and large do not believe that Original Sin can be eradicated by political action; but there have been Catholics throughout history who have felt it proper......
Snuffing It
From Fr Martin J Clayton SIR – Thank you for publishing the delightful contribution by Quentin de la Bédoyère on the virtues of snuff-taking (Charterhouse Chronicle, Aug 5). It......
More Than Scripture
From Ms Barbara Harrison SIR – In response to Fr Frank Jackson’s answer to my letter (Aug 5) the word used in 1 Cor 9 is translated, as he correctly pointed out, as “wife”, but......
Musical Memory
From Mr Harry Ashcroft SIR – I am 99 and remember that the first two Masses on Sunday and weekdays were without music. The 11 o’clock Mass on Sunday was usually sung, Missa......
Pastor Iuventus
Taking on a Jehovah’s Witness I made two mistakes this week. One was watching a very dated but nonetheless very scary horror film called Salem’s Lot , which is based on a book......