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Anglican-catholic Dialogue Does It Have A Future?
THIS SEEMS AN unusually apposite time to reassess the present state of the ecumenical adventure to which the Church has been committed since the Sixties. In Anglophone......
Funny Old Games And The Pope
THEY say football is ;1 - flinny old game". Well, it seems to produce some funny old sports writers. Simon Barnes of The Times gave a "hurrah!" to former goalkeeper and current......
Re — Why Are
parents not fully consulted? From Mr .I.T Van der Linden Sir, In my ignorance I thought that Catholic schools were started in this country 150 years ago in order to make certain......
Christians Awake!
From Mr John Wainwright Sir, However gracious Ram Gidoomal, its excellent mayoral candidate, may have been in defeat and whatever gloss Christian commentators may have put on......
Justice And Peace
From Ms Rosemary Read Sir, What an extraordinary outburst by Mary Kenny ("Marxism at the foot of the cross"). I want to ask her a specific question: what does she think Jesus......
Celibacy Reporting The Truth
From the religious affairs correspondent of The Guardian Sir, At the risk of wearying your long-suffering readers, since The Catholic Herald persists in insisting it knows......
From The Revd Jeremy Davies Sir, In His Report On
exorcism (April 28) Luke Coppen says that the Church's new rite "tones the most aggressive imprecations against the devil. Priests are advised to avoid references to the......
Confronting Surrogacy
Sir, In response to Nuala Scarisbrick's article "Confronting the nightmare of commercial surrogacy" (May 12), I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to somone who is prepared to......
Fighting False Accusations Of Child Sexual Abuse
From Ms Margaret Kennedy, Sir, Whilst it must indeed he horrendous to be wrongly accused of sexual abuse,1 was shocked and deeply disturbed by Archbishop Ward's sermon at......
From Mr Patrick Garry Sir, I Respect Ms Margaret Kennedy's
tragic experience which 1 fear, however, is muddling her judgement in a letter (May 5) which is marred by confusion and selfcontradiction (for example, in the references to the......
Sir, I Write To Congratulate The Catholic. Herald On The
way it is raising awareness of issues surrounding child abuse allegations and in particular of the methods used by the police in obtaining convictions. Your editorials "Ending......