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St Thérèse’s Relics Brought Peace To The People Of England
From Mr Kevin Greenan SIR – As a parishioner and a steward of Westminster Cathedral I, like many, wondered what effect the visit of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux would......
Astonishing Fruits
From Fr James Mulligan SIR – In his letter (October 16) Christopher Keeffe states that I have “reiterated the myth that Bishop Peric has been stripped of jurisdiction”. I have......
A Musical Idea To Celebrate The Papal Visit
From Mr Anthony Buckley SIR – One can find interesting stuff in The Catholic Herald . For example, a few weeks ago, I read not only that the Pope was coming to Britain but also......
The Vatican’s Nobel Comment Was Unhelpful
From the director of the department for pastoral affairs of the Diocese of Westminster SIR – One cannot help feeling bewilderment at some elements inside the Vatican applauding......
Making History
From Marianna, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley SIR – With reference to the article (Catholic Life, October 16) about the appointment of Helena Muller as the first Catholic......
A Positive Decision
From Mrs June Walters......
Sir – It’s Heartening That Tom Cruise Has Allowed His
daughter, Suri, to attend a Catholic preschool (Report, October 16). Let’s hope and pray that he will one day return to the Catholic faith of his youth. Yours faithfully, JUNE......
Facing The Elephant
From Mr Stratford Caldecott SIR – Clive Copus claims that in my analysis of the challenge of evangelisation (Comment, October 2), I ignored the “elephant in the room”, namely......
A Lukewarm Body
From Mr Ray Knight......
Sir – We Are Urged To Work At Evangelising But
surely it would be reasonable to first plug the gaps responsible for so many thousands leaving the Church. We have tended to blame those who left; it has been suggested that......
A Glorious Future?
From Geraldine Roberts SIR – I was interested to read Michael Coren’s account (Features, October 16) of the revival of the Canadian Church. But I wonder if the situation there......
Prayer
Prayer flows In the direction of light In a maze of the soul A loveliness of being Opening like Spring This is from a collection of 52 poems entitled Prayer published in......
Catholic Dilemmas My Children Are Keen To Celebrate...
I am a little concerned by some of the merchandise that is promoted for them. Should Catholics be celebrating Halloween? Halloween takes its name from the “eve” of All Hallows,......
Thought
FOR THE WEEK Just as the flattery of friends often leads us astray, so the insults of enemies often do us good. – St Augustine of Hippo (354–430)......