Page 4, 1st May 1987
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May Is Joseph's Month As Well
IT IS just a quarter of a century since the first session of the second Vatican Council. What are our thoughts now, if any, when a whole generation of Catholics has grown up......
Valid Anglicans And Liberal Catholics
I HAVE been a priest for 50 years though fortunately, unlike Fr Garvey (Letters, April 17) I am neither disturbed nor perplexed by the decision to accept two former clergy of......
Celebration "new Rite" Or Not?
Viewpoint THE CHAIRMAN of the Latin Mass Society reports a steady increase in the membership of the Society. Personally, I have noticed many young people attending Masses of the......
Midwives The Advantages
I SHARE Cardinal Hume's anxiety that if pregnant women are screened for the AIDS virus, and are found to be serol positive, they may be put under pressure to agree to abortion......
Disagreement Over Spiritual Fruits
I AM sorry to be in disagreement with your two sincere correspondents (April 17) about the spiritual fruits of Medjugorje. I am obliged also to regard the disparaging reference......
Tracing Reredos
I WOULD be most grateful if I could use your columns to obtain some information about a reredos which was made in India for an unidentified Catholic church in Suffolk. The......
"postive" Doctrine And Conscience Examined
I READ the letters regarding "Sexual Matters and the informed conscience" (April 10) With interest, but alas also with a little dismay. I am quite sure that Dr J Phelan is quite......
Unique Birth
NOTHING could be more unlike "Surrogacy" than the virgin birth of Jesus. Our Lady was naturally and completely his mother. "The Holy Spirit will overshadow thee". No "rent of a......
Dominican Oxen?
THE recent review (April 10) of Peter Levi's book The Frontiers of Paradise: A Study of Monks and Monasteries contains the statement that "The most popular plant book in the......
Campaigner
PATRICK WALL says (March 13) that "the spectacle of a Monsignor participating in party political activity over the years has certainly not helped the reputation of the Catholic......
Recognising The Needs — And Helpers — Of The Handicapped
LYNETTE Burrow's article, "Handicapped By What? Expert Opinions" (April 10) deeply saddened and angered me. As a Social Worker in the field, I failed to recognise even one......