Page 5, 19th November 1971

19th November 1971
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Commissions Are Not 'hobbies'

M Y friend Mr. Douglas Brown has made an unfortunate choice of words (Nov. 12). Whether the work of the Laity Commission, which the Bishops brought into being, has been of any......

Letters To The Editor

Reasons behind violence in Northern Ireland 1 MUST say that I read with increasing apprehension the numerous letters in your correspondence columns which condemn the violence in......

Frustrating Synod?

M AY I be allowed to protest against your front-page headline "Disastrous end to chaotic and frustrating Synod." The report to which it was a caption in no way justified the......

The Case Against School Segregation

Pr HE article by Peter Robin son defending the validity of Catholic schools was of a sincerity and depth which must command respect, and his views have the backing of wide......

I Am Assembling Material For 1 A Book On The Political And

economic theory, political activities, and political journalism of Hilaire Belloc, Cecil Edward Chesterton, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton. I should be happy to hear front any of......

Teaching Confused With 'learning' In Ireland

0 my old friend John D. Sheridan (staunch defender of the Faith and Capitalism) sees fit to "crime" me again (Nov. 5), this time for endorsing or seeming to endorse Dr. E. M.......

Cost Of Changing Churches

T HERE is on aspect of Church expenditure which has not so far appeared in your paper. That is the large sums spent in altering churches to bring them "into line with New......

Rome And Its Mysteries

1 WAS dining in Rome some years ago with an American expert observer at the Council. It was in a well known extremely old Roman restaurant where the tables arc very close......

Atonement All Round

From Lady Richmond T I OO am a Catholic reader of the Jewish Chronicle, and find it an excellent and talented newspaper, although its uncritical support for a foreign government......