Page 4, 24th January 1992
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Misplaced Outrage!
IT IS not always easy to distinguish chastity from celibacy, but it is unwise to leap head-first into the complex waters of the church's teaching on sexuality without......
What Price Peace Of Mind
THE warning note sounded this week by hospital chaplain Fr Aldan Curran over the future for those who perform this vital service should not go unheeded by church leaders of all......
Confession's Decline Reveals The Real Face Of Today's...
HOW frustrated and sad Ann Skinner's view on penance made me feel (January 17). Clearly she does not believe that the eucharist too is a sacrament of forgiveness. I consider her......
Bishops' Appointments To End Up Like Election Of Club...
I AM more than somewhat perplexed by your leader on the subject of the appointment of prelates (January 17). Your remark about the Swiss diocese where, you state, the......
Labels That Lead Us Away From Real Issues
IT was not my intention, as Dr Leary (January 10) suggests, to exchange "disabled" for "handicapped". I wanted to illustrate their different implications and meanings. My point......
Demands Of The Faithful
1 READ with great interest Peter Stanford's contribution to Charterhouse Chronicle (January 10), How strange it is that before Vatican II Catholics and sexuality seldom raised......
Opus' Secrets
MAY I explain to the postulator for the cause of Josemaria Escriva why I have misgivings about the proposed beatification? As an ordinary parishioner, but reasonably informed by......
Headlines That Do Damage
THE headline of your article "Pope warned of Islam's diabolical plan" in fat print on page one (January 17) is, I am afraid, gravely misleading. In these days when Christians,......
The Genius Of St Henry Manning
WHILST I agree with Frances Meigh and Josephine Robinson (January 10) that Cardinal Newman did not spend quite all of his time with the "ruling classes " , such a belief should......
History Up In Smoke
DESMOND ALBROW IT was only when watching the BBC television programme on Winston Churchill last week that for some odd reason realised what a debt we owe to tobacco for our......