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Missing The Point
The media’s woeful coverage of WYD W ORLD Y OUTH D AY has proved yet again that the Catholic Church is a vibrant and exciting institution. More than a million young Catholics......
Let Us Crow
Our pupils have done us proud I T IS CONSIDERED bad form to crow about one’s own (or one’s children’s) good A-level grades, particularly if they are being compared to someone......
50 Years Ago This Week
A constant battery of prayer for Christian unity rose and fell throughout the long night on the vigil of the national pilgrimage to Walsingham at the weekend, when 155 pilgrims......
Listen Up
From Mr Tom McIntyre SIR – I can’t help wondering if the unspeakably long gestation of the English Liturgy text revision (Page 1, 12 August) may not trace right back to its......
Dancing In Church
From Ms Patricia M MacDermot SIR – Mr Joseph Bracewell (Letters, August 12) says he has never witnessed liturgical dance. I have. Many years ago I walked into Seville Cathedral......
Historical Witness
From Mr Eddie O’Hara SIR – Like Pastor Iuventus (August 19) I had a Jehovah’s Witness at my door quoting the gospel. “Do you know that it is the Catholic Church alone that......
The Catholic Action Group: A Question Of Tone And Language?
From Mr Chris Walsh SIR – As a cradle Catholic of some 75 years, an active pro-lifer and catechist for over 35 years, I am surprised at Mr Gummer’s recent comments on a lay......
Pedestrian Words
From Mr Cliff Wale SIR – Mrs Daphne Macleod (Letters, August 12) asks for “rigorous religious instruction from the pulpit”. One can only add “Hear, hear”, but there is a rigid......
Thirst For Life
From Mr Kieran Gallagher SIR – I was dismayed to read that it is now legal for doctors to deny food and drink to the terminally ill. I accept that modern medical technology......
The Forgotten Mary
From Mrs Mary Hunt SIR – Fr Cormac Rigby in his “Sunday Sermon” gives us the accepted picture of Calvary – Mary and John on either side of the Cross and Mary of Magdala crouched......
Ally Found Their Advert On Page 8 On Mortal Sin,
hell, etc, a salutary reminder of important truths of our faith which nowadays are seldom mentioned from the pulpit. The question of tone and language is one thing, but surely......
With Anglicanism Presented As An Equally Valid...
have imagined that the chief Catholic charity would be in defiance of the Magisterium with its open ABC policy of condoning condom use? Who would have imagined the collapse in......
Pack Your Bags, John
From Ms Theresa Quarmby SIR – I am appalled by the arrogance of John Laughland in his article “The shared errors of Protestantism and Islam” (Comment, August 12). I would like......
A Scene Of Biblical Proportions
I am glad there is a special 18-page edition of the Herald this week to mark World Youth Day. Given time I could write eighteen pages myself. It might help reflect the nature of......