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Call For Guidelines On Baptism
IIECUMENISM is to be fruitful, those who participate in the activity must speak the truth as they see it with charity. Dr Micklewright has posed various historical questions......
El Salvador Another Vietnam?
ON BEHALF of the Irish H Salvador Support Committee, I ss ish to thank over 300 people who attended our 3rd Vigil ouLside the US Embassy in Dublin on October 19. A missionary,......
Christ And Christmas
MAY I ask if one of your readers would please like to send me the words of "St Patrick's Breastplate," as sung by the pilgrims at Lough Derg, to the tune of "Morning Has......
Priest's Right To Marry
IT WAS something of a surprise to read that Canon M. Casey should once more bring up the subject of priestly celibacy. Does it mean that priests do not read what the Pope has......
Dating The Roman Missal
I TAKE IT that David Lunn was writing popularly when he says, Nov 7, that Gregory I authorised 'the Roman missal'. If he authorised anything it was a sacramentary, i.e. a book......
Responsibilities Of Parenthood
IN ANSWER to Miss Pamela Newman, Nov 7, yes married people are a "de luxe" class, not only have they the privilege of finding a member of the opposite sex who is prepared to......
Bear With Us, Seminarians
WOULD IT NW be a good idea if every seminarian studied domestic science as well as theology — or at least a basic survival course in cookery in view of the lamentable lack of......
The Battle For Justice
M R LYONS asks me how such groups as Justice and Peace Commissions can help to prevent injustice. Nov 7. The obvious way is to get into contact with individuals and......
Confusion Plus Misunderstanding Equals Chaos
THE FATHERS at the Council of Ephesus approved, apparently with some trepidation, the title "Mother of God" for the Blessed Virgin Mary. Apart from this being a major stumbling......
A Scientific View Of The Turin Shroud
YOUR ISSUE of Nov. 7. carried a report of a lecture that I gave to the British Society for the Turin Shroud. Your story has accurately reported one feature of the Shroud image......
On Firm Ground At Home
LIVING as I do in an area in which Catholic parents who have the temerity to send their children to nonCatholic schools are subject to all manner of censure. I was interested to......
Taking A Caning
TOM SCOTT'S deriding of the views and 'prejudices' of the Headmaster of Cardinal Vaughan School is poppycock. modern softie rubbish and wrong conclusions. There is no conclusion......
'professor-no-one Is Listening'
I CONGRATULATE you warmly on your timely remark on Hans Kling's open letter to the Pope. You write: "If Fr Kling seriously expects all these proposals to be entertained, he......
Harmful Horoscopes
AM CONCERNED that a Christian newspaper should be advertising a television programme by saying "... there is nothing wrong with thinking the stars rule our lives, under......
These Are No Guard Dogs Of War
FATHER Zabelka's timely reflections on the nuclear bombing of Japan should stimulate us to question the proposed siting of cruise missiles in this country. Their almost pinpoint......