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In The Forces
Effects of Coarsening SIR,-The Y.C.W.'s plan to give boys due for National Service an idea of what to expect in the Forces (THE CATHOLIC HERALD, June 1I ) is a much - needed......
Idea Of A University
SIR,-Tha object of university education today, says T. Herlihy, is not to deepen one's understanding, not to train the mind to think properly, not to give one a comprehensive......
"od Ious Heresy Sir,-myself A Graduate Married To A Woman...
I was reading the unguarded generalisations which your recent correspondence seems to have provoked when I was pulled up short by the hair-raising contribution of Mr. T.......
Legion Of Mary Organisation
Si.-The Legion of Mary is regarded by the Communists of the East as Public Enemy Number 1. In certain circumstances such a reputation could be an honourable one but in this case......
The Engine Driver Replies
SIR.,-1 would like to thank Fr. Edward Holloway for his clear statement of the general principles by which the railwaymen's attitude to lodging turns should be judged. It is......
Converts Then And Now
SIR,-I was surprised to read in THE CATHOLIC HERALD that some "Cradle Catholics" look upon converts as "inferior." If this is so, times have changed since I came into the Church......
Oldest Catholic School
Ste, Mr. Roberts sa y s that many people would be pleased to see substantiated the claim that St. Edmund's is the descendant of Twyford and Silkstead. So while we agree with him......
Training Catholic University Students
Sus.-Fr. Randall endorses the opinion already expressed by previous correspondents, that there is no reason why religious education should not advance side by side with the......
Equality Of The Sexes
SIR,-In the recent discussion in your paper about "Equality of the sexes as to acquirement of higher education," one reader, Mr. John H. Talbot, quotes (Ttia CATHOLIC HERALD,......
Liturgical Revival
Effect on Portugal SIR, Friends of the Liturgy may be glad of the following information recently come from Portugal: "There is a tremendous surge of new life in the Church here,......
Neglect Of Liturgy Is Cause Of Indifference
Sm., The Popes of more modern times have deplored the loss of the liturgical sense among Catholics. In 1947 the present Pope made an earnest appeal in his Encyclical "Mediator......
Cobbett
New Edition Needed SIR, - With interest I have seen the letters in your columns calling for a reissue of William Cobbett's celebrated little book-which one of your......
Maidens All Forlorn
SIR,-Can anyone explain the apparent non-existence of the eligible Catholic male of 30 years of age and over. During the past five years I have both attracted (in all modesty)......
Hymns For Infants
SIR,-In reply to the letter in TT1F. CATHOr IC HERM D for June 18 from "An Infants' Teacher," I would like to say that as an infants' teacher myself I have long experienced the......
The Anglo-saxon Calendar
SIR .-Surely it would be interesting as well as useful if some expert could give us information re the above calendar, e.g., its diffusion, the centnries during which it was in......
Weeds In The Presbytery
SIR,-DO parishioners ever take the trouble to notice weeds in the parish church garden? Do they realise how costly a gardener would be to the parish priest? How easy it would be......
Fair Liturgical Wages Sm. It May Interest Your...
have raised the subject of the wages which are justly due to organists and choirmasters that St. Pius X in issuing his instructions (February 2 1912) for the carrying out of the......
St. Boniface
Sia.-Nurnerous publications refer to the missionary activities of St. Boniface in Western and Central Europe. It is generally forgotten that St. Boniface and St. Bruno both......