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Episcopal Inspiration
p- r HIS week's meeting of the English and Welsh Hierarchy prompts some reflection on the question of Church leadership in our country today. The ten years since the opening of......
That The Deaf May See
L AST week a number of Catholic and Protestant chaplains to the deaf from many European countries met in London for their sixth biennial conference. In attending it, after......
Letters To The Editor
Limits of laity 'survey IN a front page article (Octo ber 6) dealing with the publication of "The Church—Joint Venture of Priests and Laity." I am reported as having considered......
Saturday Mass
I WAS interested to note from 1 your readers' opinions on the option of Saturday Mass. that none mentioned that Saturday used to be the Sabbath Day, and still is for the Jews.......
Brackets
W ITH reference to Mr. King's letter (October 13), brackets, in Mathematics, are like prisons where prisoners who wish to escape must begin by solving the problem of their......
Out Of Place
P AUL Johnson's attack on Mr. Heath (October 6) was out of place in the CATHOLIC HERALD, (Mrs.) Margaret M. Cronin 25 Reid Park Road, Jesmond. Newcastle-on-Tyne F URTHER to your......
Churchmen And Women
M ANY will applaud Sr Rita Hannon's courageous insistence (October 13) that "Chris .tian" discrimination against women rests, not on theological principle. but on the mean and......
Communion
I N his letter t October 6) on your leader "Communion and commitment", it is Fr. Heron who is misleading. He appears to deduce from the fact that the Church allows in special......
Whither Ireland?
IT is surprising that Mr. Fallon (October 13) approves of Dr. McCluskey's suggestion that "the whole matter of contraception should be looked into . . because many young couples......
Chronic Kidney Disease
M AY I. on behalf of my wife and myself. congratulate Maureen Vincent on her article (October 6) relating to home dialysis and transplantation. Much has been written of late and......
Marriage Problem
M AY I bring to the consideration of your readers the case of a person leaving a Religious Society for conscientious reasons, while in her late thirties, and finding after......
Learning To Kill
A COUPLE of years ago your letter column carried a correspondence on the controversial subject of the morality of blood snorts in Catholic schools. However, the earnest writers......
Tower Rosary
T HANK YOU for printing my letter about the Rosary (October 13). It is intended to continue the public recitation thereof at 3.30 each Sunday until further notice. It is recited......
Social Justice And Compassion
J OHN Braine attacks the Canadian Bishops who support social justice as urged in Populorum Progressio by Pope Paul, and now (October 13) Fr. Kovacs decides to give his qualified......
Catholic Nurses
A S president of the Catholic Nurses' Guild of England and Wales I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Peter Nolan (October 6) that we need to increase our activities if we are to be......
Life Outside
M ISS 1. Snead (Sept. 22) says it is much easier to live the Christian life in a Religious Order than outside in the Modern World. But religious live a community life which is a......
Ecumenical Clarity
I WOULD just like to say how thankful I am as a junior member of an Anglican religious community the Franciscans for your leader (October 13) on the subject of unity. 1 am sure......
Parish Fasting Schemes
T HE hi-annual Family Fast Days. organised by CAFOD, may have fallen away substantially, precisely because the whole idea rings false. How dare we throw crumbs twice a year from......
Vocations
O UR Conference has been meeting in or near the major seminaries twice a year for the last five years. While considering our work together, planning jointly and learning from......
Love Outing .
C ONCERNING St. Anselm's parish outing which you described (on October 6), I would like to add my impressions. I spent September 29 to October 1 in Southall experiencing St,......