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And Moreover...
I WOULD LIKE to call for an immediate ban on the premature beatification of Tony Blair. Whatever Christian Socialist vocabulary he uses, or Catholic schools he sends his......
Now The Church Must Look To The Third World
DESPITE THE GLOOMY predictions, despite the fall in vocations in the West, despite even the paedophile scandals that have scarred the priesthood in Ireland and the US, the......
Why The Decline In Practising Catholics?
As I READ the Catholic Herald report of constantly declining Mass attendance, two letters decrying infantile and doctrinally unsound hymns, then Melanie McDonagh's sensible......
Greed Born Of The National Lottery
THE NATIONAL Lottery has been condemned by the bishops and by social workers. I agree with them entirely. I have never bought a ticket and never will. There are two reasons why......
A Lay Prophet Or Champion Of Dissent?
FR JOCK Dalrymple, a parish priest in Fifeshire, has just written a book, in which he boasts that Dr Jack Dominian is "the champion of the antiHumanae camp". He infers an......
Padre Pio, A Saint In The Eyes Of The Pope
IT PASSKS comprehension that a so-called Catholic paper should sully its pages and demean its Editor with the spurious and unfounded allegations splashed on your front page......
Melanie Mcd Onagh
A more educated Irish laity at a heavy cost Propping up the bar in a Blackpool hotel at the Conservative Party conference, I was talking to an Irish journalist, when a man in a......
Carbon Dating An Unreliable Judge
THE ARTICLE IN the Catholic Herald (6 October) about the Turin Shroud leaves me rather puzzled. For one thing, it says that the shroud, in 1988, was "scientifically proved to be......
We Must Not Tolerate Disrespect Of Priests
IN REPLY TO Danny Harris (And Moreover, Catholic Herald, 13 October), the matter is not one of individual "taste". Tolerance of anything which demeans the priesthood is not......