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Catholics Can’t Afford To ‘kick Hitler Out Of Our...
From Mr Edmund Adamus, director of the department for pastoral affairs of the Diocese of Westminster SIR – Stuart Reid (Charterhouse, June 3) argues that it’s “time we kicked......
Authority By The State Today (particularly The Authority...
parents) and the aggressive subversion of the same in National Socialist Germany in the 1930s. In paragraph 39 of the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (“With Burning Sorrow”) –......
Fine Distinctions
From Mrs Ann Farmer SIR – I apologise if my letter of May 22 about Pope Pius XII appeared confusing (Letters, June 5); I was merely trying to draw attention to the historical......
Yours Faithfully, Ann Farmer Woodford Green, Essex
Reviving sacred art From Dr Guillem Ramos-Poquí SIR – Although I agree with Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith (Comment, June 5) that we have seen no renewal and no signs of any uplifting......
Crackpot Policies Make Your Voice Heard On Abortion Adverts
From Mr Michael Elmer SIR – “A vote for CP/CPA is not a vote for anything that is either criminal or insane,” says Stuart Reid (Charterhouse, May 29). He might not be quite so......
From: Mr Roger Hammond Sir – May I Appeal To
any readers who have not already done so to respond to Question 62 of the public Consultation by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice: the BCAP Code Review......
A Hostile Environment
From Christopher Keeffe SIR – The decision by Harriet Harman (Report, May 5) to refuse Julian Brazier’s request for a debate on discrimination against Christians in public life......
Needing A Miracle
From Margaret M Rainford SIR –In Cecil Kerr’s Teresa Helena Higginson , Fr Bertrand Wilberforce OP, the great, great, grandson of Lord Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner,......
Cherishing Liberty
From Mr Frank Beswick SIR – In all the furore over the election of the BNP we must remember that there are two clearly morally suspect parties holding elected office: the BNP......
We Must Resist An ‘educational Marketplace’
From Professor Gerald Grace, director of the Centre for Research and Development in Catholic Education SIR – Readers must not be misled by Professor Philip Booth (Letters, June......
An Utter Disgrace
From Mr Richard Dodd SIR – The medieval historian Henry of Huntingdon, archdeacon of Huntingdon and a canon of Lincoln Cathedral, is a chronicler of great repute. His History of......
A Chance To Say: ‘thank You For Being Our Priests’
T he patron of parochial priests, St Jean Vianney, was known as “the most unlearned but the most devout seminarian in Lyons”. But the vicar general only asked if he were a good......
A Shining Witness To Christ
I magine that when you arrive for Mass this Sunday you find your priest standing ashen-faced on the threshold of the church. He is holding a note warning him and the whole......
Catholic Dilemmas
The Catechism teaches that the seventh commandment enjoins respect for the integrity of creation, that we do not have an absolute dominion over created things, and that we must......