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The Church And Art
Sie,-Although one is bound to agree with much of what Fr. Crichton has to say on art as a means to worship, there are many points in his article which require further......
Persecution In. Spain
Spanish View-point SIR. 1. The Law of Spain allows non - :Catholics to practise their religion privately but not to make outward or public demon strations of it or to......
Public Confession And Leakages
Sir,-The terrifying figures of leakages from the Church are attributed to many and various causes, but one point I have never known to be raised and it is perhaps a grave reason......
'art As A Means .
Ste,-While I appreciate all Fr. Crichton's practical advice to craftsmen working for the Church, I would like to protest at the headline of his article, "Art as a Means to......
Working Class View
Sie,-Paul Derrick has consistently fought both Labour and Conservative opposition to statutory limitation of dividends. Your correspondents may rest assured that his reasons are......
Novelist's Realism
SIR,-Mr. Bernard Sullivan must have been in a very remarkable unit where the "rest could speak better than any of the officers." The only possible unit I can imagine where such......
Graham Greene And Cardinal Newman
SIR,-"Dominic, T.O.S.D.," in his letter published in your issue of May 15, 1953, remarks that it is not clear what Grahame Greene means when he writes of his "disloyalty," as a......
Coronation Amnesty?
SIR,-May I advance a plea that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II revive the ancient and humane custom of granting an amnesty to certain prisoners now lying in Her Majesty's prisons......
Catholics In The Forces Pre-army Training
SIR,-During the " Catholics in the Forces " controversy in your columns in October, 1951, I then wrote that my experience (and it has been very long, both in the ranks and as an......
Papers Outside Church
Standing in a queue outside a wellknown London church after early Mass (Sunday), T was amazed at the amount of Irish women who asked for the London papers and at how few took......
Day Off For Mother
I suggest that an excellent idea for aiding co-operation and sympathy in families is for mother to have a day off a week. when all the other people in the family turn to and......
From Pupil To Catechist
May I suggest it possible method of modifying the appalling "leakage" from our Catholic schools? I have several friends between the ages of 16 and 20 who, after training, are......
Conversion Of Russia
We have long been praying for the conversion of Russia. Now there seem to be first signs of it; ought we not to increase our efforts, rather than doubt, as many Catholics do,......
Coronation
Thousands of motorists have already fixed small Union Jacks on the bonnets, windscreens and roofs of their cars. Children have fixed them on their cycles and tricycles. Cyclists......
The 'protocols'
I was recently involved in a discussion concerning the authenticity of that pseudo-confession of a Jewish conspiracy to world domination entitled "The Protocols of the Elders of......
Mass Clocks
In a book I am reading I have come across a reference to a "Mass clock." Apparently these can be found in many old churches throughout this country. I shall be most grateful for......
A Benson Society ?
Sometimes I think that we do not realise how great a novelist Robert Hugh Benson was, and what influence his books could exert if he were more widely known. Perhaps a Benson......
Laversuch, S.w.1.
Mrs. Hemans on Our Lady I am anxious to obtain the words of a poem to Our Lady by Mrs. Hemans. I believe that although she wrote it, she herself died a Protestant. I would be......
Persecution-pul Pit Reminder
SIR,-We hear much of psychological warfare through Press and radio these days. But how often, if ever, do we hear from the pulpit of the dangers, sufferings and glorious......
Colour Bar
Experience in India SIR.-- Mr. Peter Railing ' s " policy of Voluntary Apartheid " based on colour makes no sense and is un-Christian. There are plenty of Asiatics in South......
Moral Leadership Courses
SIR,-111 THE CATHOLIC HERALD Of May 15, T. F. Hibbert suggests that Service chaplains be asked to organise a series of retreats. I would like to point out that in the R.A.F.......
A Good Example
S1R,--Some of your correspondents are not very complimentary about the practical religion of Catholic officers serving in Her Majesty's Forces. May I make a plea for at least......
Garth, Lake Avenue, Rhyl.
SIR,-Surely Pte. Clarke is himself barking up the wrong tree. for are not all Catholics worth while? I presume that he is misusing this phrase to distinguish between goodliving......
Tragedy Of Silesia
Sig,-In reply to correspondents: I. The condition of Silesia in the 12th century is now irrelevant no less than the fact that Red Indians were once the only people in North......
Mgr. Ivan Buchko
Sra,-An announcement published in the L'Osservatore Ronrano of May 5, 1953, will give great pleasure and encouragement to thousands of our fellow Catholics of the Byzantine Rite......
Catholic Evidence Answers To Your
Questions Can you give a scientific proof of the existence of God? (Evidence in the natural order, etc., not accepted.) I TAKE it that a "scientific proof" meaits a proof using......
Is Artificial Insemination Of Cattle Forbidden By The...
N 0, there is no Catholic principle by which it can be condemned as morally wrong. The reasons which make artificial insemination wrong for human beings do not apply to animals,......