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People At The Altar
May I join in the recent discussion in your columns on the question of girls serving at the altar? The situation regarding altarservers owes much to its historical background.......
Christmastime Mass
This year, as most people will have realised. Christmas Day falls on a Monday. This seems to be a mixed blessing. Christmas Eve, being on the Sunday. gives the lay-person, at......
Example Of A State Cult
Remembrance Sunday is a splendid example of a state cult. The trouble is that there are two unintentional blasphemies associated with its keeping — first, the Crusader-like......
Sdlp 'not Catholic Mouthpiece'
Regarding your leader of November 10 on the SDLP decision to call for British withdrawal from Nothern Ireland, without entering into controversy about the wisdom or otherwise of......
Caring Workers
In your article of November 3 entitled "Crisis for caring workers" the conclusion was: "The moral for the rest of us would seem to be to hesitate before criticising those in the......
Lebanon's Main Trouble
From Lady Richmond The Pontifical Mission for Palestine is an admirable organisafirm, and 1 agree with Mgr Meaney October 27 that there can be ho longstanding solution to the......
Pope's Burden
I would like to support the appeal, in your editorial of October 27, that we should not expect too much from the new Pope. insofar as the complex and pressing problems which......
Pensioners' Rights
1 am confused by Hugh Faulkner (October 27) encouraging pensioners to claim their rights on the one hand, while denigrating their political activities on the other. It is not......
Repeating The Sacrifice
Mr Jerome Burrough, in his letter of October 20, states that the old Mass "is indeed the Sacrifice of Calvary repeated". Surely "repeated" is not correct? I have always......
Married Deacons Not The Answer
Referring to the letter of' November 3, by M. L. L. White headed "Job for con vert clergy''. I suggest that "married deacons" are not the answer to the over worked priests.......
How Odd Of God
Belloc once wrote "How odd of God to choose the Jews". We could, I suppose, say: "How odd of God to choose to send His only-begotten Son, instead of His only-begotten Daughter."......