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Blank Or Bank Statement
IT is virtually necessary in a leading article, particularly perhaps in a religious newspaper, to take as positive a view as possible and to relegate negative aspects of a......
The Quality Of Human Relations In Our Schools
IT IS most distressing that the Westminster Diocese Education Service appears to adopt as its priority for Catholic Schools the objective of the widest choice of subjects for......
Phenomena Abound At Medjugorje
I AM sorry if Mr Gallagher's experience at Medjugorje was less edifying than mine (May 1). Like him, I dislike inaccuracies, and I can assure him that the general opinion is......
Morning After Pill
MRS MARY Bell (May 1) rightly brings it to our attention that nowhere and never has the Vatican ever suggested that the use of a "condom with holes in it" may be lawful. One is......
Arguing Rites And Wrongs
ONE CANNOT but sympathise wirth Fr Placid Croney OP in his dove for the "old rite" (May 1). Nor is it only the elderly who find themselves drawn to it, as he truly remarks. But......
Outcry At Drunken And Lonely Priests
HOW tragically sad that, when most of us are observing Vocations Sunday by praying for and encouraging Vocations, you, in your gravely responsible position, produce your......
Sin Or Sins
THERE is a fashion among priests to replace the word "sins" when it occurs in the Mass by • the word "sin", eg "You who take away the sin of the world" at the Agnus Dei. Perhaps......
Listen With Your Mind
Viewpoint OUR LADY is the Gospel come to life. She lived the Gospel. She is a Teacher and this is the lesson that she teaches us. She is our first teacher, just as our own......
Supernatural Package
BISHOP Lindsay (May 15) will help to dispel much of the misunderstanding about Medjugorje pilgrimages by stating the Yugoslav cardinal's clarifications on the subject. What......
Marist Pull-out Causes Distress
I HAVE just learnt that the Marist Order is withdrawing from the French Church, Leicester Place WC2 and turning over the parish in the summer to other French/English speaking......
Opening Of A New Frontier
WE ARE grateful to the Catholic Herald for its continuing coverage of religious. affairs in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As you are aware, we have recently launched a......