Page 4, 25th October 1991
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Time To Stop And Rethink On Uda
ONE can too easily become accustomed to bad news. Weariness and resignation are the usual responses to the death toll mounted up by terrorist gangs in Northern Ireland; they......
More Than One Law
THE next time a political party complains of widespread disrespect for the law, it ought to look at the beam in its own eye. Rumours that a cartel of supermarkets, headed by......
Doctors Order A Spin
BEWARE the spin doctors. There's a new category of people about called the spin doctors. They were in evidence at the major party conferences and are deeply involved in City-bid......
Why The Pope Is Above Politics
STEADY on there in the headline writing and editorial departments! I look at my Catholic Herald (October 18) and see the headline: "Pope makes option for the poor". Then in the......
Grieving For Our Unborn Child
HAVING lost our child at the eighth week of pregnancy (six weeks after conception) in June this year. I feel compelled to comment on Dr Joyce Poole's letter (September 13). I......
On The Side Of Women
DAVID Alton (September 13) would prefer to come to an arrangement with the Tory party rather with Labour, claiming abortion to be the reason. Whilst I would accept Tory......
Slip Of The Traditions
RE Fr Matthew Fox (October 18). Your writer Rachel Storm quotes his plea for a return to the "mystical tradition of pantheism". The correct word is parrentheism the belief that......
Debating The Extent Of Debate In Our Universities
MARY Kenny's "Lecturing to the lefties" is both trite and illinformed (October 11). Her clarion cry is academic freedom. It seems those nasty marxists (particularly in what she......
The Buck Stops Short
THE spirited defence of Julius III by my fellow Boltonian must be the first time that I have seen him hailed as a great pontiff. Much of the work in the Marian restoration was......