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Empty Rhetoric In A Bloody War Of Words
THE Loughall shoot out, the young man blown up whilst planting a bomb, the sectarian killing of Gary McCartan, the 17-year-old Catholic, by Protestant paramilitaries brought......
Women's Group Helps Girl Fight Deafness
AN Ethiopian girl who is growing steadily deaf and blind has been brought to England in the hope that a cure can be found. The girl, Meron Tsegaye, is 14 and speaks no English.......
Focus On 'awareness'
LAST Sunday over 120 people, representing 11 Justice and Peace groups, attended a Justice and Peace day for the North London area, hosted by the Missionary Institute in Mill......
Home News In Brief
Focus on justice THE HAYES Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire is to be the setting of the Jubilee Conference of the National Standing Committee of Diocesan Justice and......
Tvam Appoints Pasco As Religious Editor
TV-AM, the breakfast television channel, has appointed Rowanne Pasco as its first religious editor. Ms Pasco, a former BBC Radio reporter, was editor of the Universe for six......
A Hallowed Occasion
by Elizabeth Goulding ARCHBISHOP Luigi Barbarito, Apostolic ProNuncio, was the guest-ofhonour at the Silver Jubilee celebrations at All Hallows School Farnham, Surrey, last......
Quakers: No Tax For War
SO strong are the Quakers objections to any part of their taxes being used for military purposes, they are bringing the matter up as a major subject at their Yearly Meeting......
Cornwell Is No Precedent
THOSE who see the projected ordination of Anglican vicar Peter Cornwell as "the thin end of the wedge" of a married priesthood last week had the record set straight by......
Charles Kennedy Was Elected In 1983 For Ross, Cromarty And
Skye. He is defending a majority of just under five per cent and is the SDP spokesman on Health and Social Services.......
Sir Hugh Rossi Was First Elected An Mp In 1966,
and currently holds a majority of over seven per cent in his constituency of Hornsey and Wood Green. He was Minister for Social Security between 1981 and 1983.......
Robert Parry Is Labour Mp For Liverpool Riverside....
has been associated primarily with the issue of unemployment, he has also worked for the Kids in Need organisation. He presently enjoys a majority of 45 per cent.......
Mary Kenny Is A National Patron Of Life, Author Of
Abortion: The Whole Story (Quartet) and columnist in the Sunday Telegraph........
It Is Simply Not Possible To Sweep Away The Abortion
law because there would not be democratic support for that. But it is vital to 'amend the law so as to reduce the time-limit on abortion, and there could be widespread support......
I've Always Been Pro-life And I Believe That We Should
look at the whole question of abortion laws as they affect unwanted pregnancies.......
I Would Like To See The Abortion Act Repealed As
I believe a life exists from the moment of conception. I don't think I would succeed in passing such a bill, and therefore what I'd like to do is to prohibit abortion after 24......
Personally, I Would Support A Private Member's...
up existing laws on the time limit, but it would depend on the flavour of the next parliament before you could see what you could get through.......
Q As A Catholic, Do You Think That The Church Can
seek to impose its teachings through law on such matters as abortion and contraception on a nation that is predominantly nonCatholic in character?......
No, Not In A Parliamentary Or Legislative Way. But It's
open to the Church to lay down its own edicts. In terms of a pluralistic society it's wrong to lay down one orthodox view of any church.......
The Church Would Never Succeed If It Tried, But It
must continue to try and bring about a change in public consciousness so that the public would want the rules to change.......
Certainly I Have Reservations On Contraception, But I've...
for abortion in my 17 years in parliament, but I do think that the Church should look at the question of family planning.......
I Always Find This "catholics Imposing Their Will"...
silly, particularly as it generally, for some reason, comes from people who are violent anti-smokers (eg David Owen) and wish to go as far as banning all advertising of smokes.......
Yes, I Would Certainly Vote To Ban Embryo...
is ethically wrong to experiment on human beings, unless they give their consent, or unless there is a very good chance that the experiment will help that particular individual.......
I Wouldn't Vote For A Ban On All Experimentation, But
I would support the Government's giving more time to debate things like the Warnock Report.......
I Am In Favour Of Preventing All Experimentation Except That
done for the embryo's benefit, and then of course only -with strict controls.......
A Qualified Right. You Have To Take Account Of Both
the importance of confidentiality between the doctor and the patient, as well as the bond of trust between the parent and the child.......
Yes.
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Parents, As A General Rule, Should Be Fully Aware Of
any medication prescribed to their child. With the pill, moreover, we have good evidence that some of those who recommended it was doing so as a deliberate ploy to deceive......
Catholic Teaching On Aids Seems To Me A Balanced Mixture
of compassion and good moral sense and deserves attention in its own right.......
The Church's Teaching Is Very Important On This Question,...
Catholic views should be heard, but I'm not in favour of any scaremongering, and I don't want victims to be discriminated against.......
As Much As I Could. The Best Way Of Preventing
the spread of AIDS is to follow the Church's teaching on sexual matters.......
I Served On A Select Committee Which Just Published Its
report, and heard a vast amount of evidence. I'd give Catholic teaching a high degree of prominence along with many other submissions.......