Page 4, 22nd May 1992
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Back To The Blackboard
ST GEORGE is no longer a saint possibly a dragon seems a bit far-fetched for our unromantic modern sensibilities. How sad, however, to watch that fearless knight make room for......
Trapped In A Debt Cycle
JOHN BATTLE MP DESPITE the impression created by Gerald Ratner's debunking remark, the subsequent declining fortunes of his jewellery business, and money market reports relating......
Governors And A Better Life Behind Bars
CERTAIN statements were attributed to me in a recent edition of the Catholic Herald. I would like to offer your readers my thoughts on the issues mentioned in that report. If......
Celebrate
I SHOULD like to use your letters page to invite all those who have had any connection with St Thomas Aquinas RC School, Milton Keynes, to come and join us in celebrating its......
However One Feels About The Schools Having Been Granted The
legal right to opt out of local authority control, it is good that the Bishops of England and Wales are seeking clarification of the issues involved from the new Minister of......
At Home With Eamonn, Annie And Peter
YOUR leader on celibacy (Catholic Herald, May 15) makes me wonder whether you are advocating that our Church should take a page from the Anglican book? Chastity is one of the......
Unsung Saints In Action
I READ with interest the article by Murray White on prison chaplains {Catholic Herald May 15). The list of unsung saints grows every day, happily: while others may approach the......
Welcomed
ARCHBISHOP Carey is not the first religious leader to condemn the gulf between the incomes of the very rich and the very poor (Catholic Herald May 8). The managing directors of......
From Peter's Footsteps
IT WAS with absolute horror that I read the letter last week by an anonymous priest praising "Brookside" (Catholic Herald May 15). The thought of a parish priest being even......
Who Needs Twins In Europe?
1 FAIL to see the point of the bishops' proposal with regard to parish twinning: the need of the Church at the present time is to improve her own life rather than associate......
If The Scots Can Have It, Why Can't We?
THE appojntment of Patrick Mayhew and Michael Mates to Stormont bodes ill for any successful talks on Northern Ireland, because it indicates the continued policy of divide and......