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A Timely Plan To Save Our Weakest Catholic Schools
A wind of change is sweeping through the Catholic Education Service of England and Wales (CESEW). First, Oona Stannard, the body’s long-serving director, took an indefinite......
A 21st-century Challenge
B enedict XVI’s second trip to Africa was, by all accounts, a great success. Despite temperatures in the upper 80s and reports that he is suffering from arthrosis, the Pope......
A Bishop’s Long Life Of Joy
T he Catholic Herald was very sorry this week to learn of the death of Bishop John Jukes at the age of 88. Bishop Jukes was never a diocesan bishop – he served as auxiliary in......
As The Full New Mass Translation Is Introduced The Debate...
From Mr Philip Goddard SIR –Your correspondent Elizabeth Burgess (Letter, November 4) argues passionately for the translation of pro multis as “for all” at the Consecration. But......
We Should Be Followers Of Jesus This Advent Rather Than...
From Mrs Ann Farmer SIR – Dr Gerald Danaher (Letter, November 4) quotes approvingly Professor David Coleman: “We are (almost) all Malthusians now. Well over half the world’s......
A Major Voice
From Count Quentin de la Bédoyère SIR – I had hoped that someone less parti pris than me would have corrected the error in Fr Rolheiser’s column of October 28. But clearly I......
Portents Of Death
From Mrs Helen Lack SIR – Stuart Reid (Charterhouse, November 11) describes how robins appeared at both of his parents’ interments. Although he expresses satisfaction at these......
A Legal Challenge
From Mr Iain Colquhoun SIR – You report (November 18) on a Government plan to enforce abortion provision on local councils. Surely that is illegal, as the law on abortion only......
The Irish Government Has Clearly Closed The Wrong Embassy...
From Mr Donal O’Driscoll SIR – We have been told that the reason the Vatican embassy was being closed was on economic grounds (Report, November 11). This is not the first time......
Excluding Women
From Miss Anita de Lacey SIR – In the Nicene Creed, we say: “Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, he came down from heaven.” It appears to me that......
An ‘unreconstructed Ossified Manualist’ Makes An Appeal...
From Mr Seán Wright SIR – Fr Paul Browne OSB (Letter, November 11) seems to write that he disagrees with Fr Tim Finigan’s insistence (Catholic Dilemmas, October 21) that the......
Return Of The Sedia
From Mrs Christina M Stratton SIR – Now that the Holy Father has chosen to use a wheeled platform to enter St Peter’s Basilica, might it not be more dignified and appropriate......