Page 5, 21st August 1998
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If Sinn Fein Are Serious, Let Them Declare Peace And Give...
IT IS HARD to discern any sign of hope in the massacre at Omagh. But at least this can be said: that there has come an end to certain illusions. Now we finally have to face the......
Gabriel Controversy: Where Does Responsibility Really Lie?
From Mr Dominic McDonnell Sir, Some time ago I used to write a regular column for the Catholic Times. In the course of several years' casual journalism I got to know and respect......
Cardinal Ratzinger And Religious Liberty
From Ms Angela Blakey Sir, I was baptised a long time ago. That baptism gave me the freedom to become a child of God and the responsibility to grow in a personal relationship......
A Defence Of Modern Church Architecture
From Mr Peter Gilby B Arch RIBA Sir, Brian Brindley's review of "The Twentieth Century Church" has performed one good service, namely to draw attention to a set of essays on how......
Jungle Booking
FR MICHAEL SEED, Cardinal Hume's busy and much-loved ecumenical adviser (pictured below). has hung up to dry his tropical weight cassock– for the time being at least – after......
Grapes Of Wrath
I AM SORRY to report that a sour grape or two has lodged in the gullet of a reader of Catholic South West, the punchy Plymouth diocesan monthly. Disgusted of Plymouth complained......
High Altitude
A 3,000 METRE high mountain in the Italian Alps, previously designated Lima Cresta Croce, has been renamed after the Pope. Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re last weekend blessed a......
Ave Vinnie
VINNY JONES, hard man of British football and shotgun-wielding star of gangster movie Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which opens next week, is really a bit of a sweetie.......
Love And So Forth
HERALD US Correspondent and California dreamer James Burbank, speaking from the comfort of his oceanside Santa Monica trailer, alerts me this week to a revealing interview with......
Far-out
Now THAT Bishop Spong Jas left ;hese shores – leaving behind fin onlja puff of blue smoke it is left, lam afraid to the odd renegade Catholkpriestto wave the banner offar-ort......