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Rumours That Carry Hope
ITS a fool's game predicting the name of new bishops. What one can legitimately do, however, is question the direction a diocese or a national church needs to take to grow in......
Signs And Situations
BRAZIL has two married priests. It had a married bishop at the second Vatican Council as our front page story recalls. Indonesia may too soon have married priests. In England......
Schools Set A Standard
In Retrospect AUTUMN brings paler skies and trees without leaf but, more prosaically, it is the season of political conferences. And as Marx has made economists of us all, I......
Drawbacks Of Integrated Schools
RE Professor Simon Lee on integrated schools in Northern Ireland (October 19). He not only disagrees with the Catholic church's recourse to litigation on the question of funding......
Party Political Broadcast By Vaz
I READ with some considerable surprise the article by Keith Vaz entitled "A good sorting out for party with future" (October 12). Whilst it is always interesting to hear the......
Collective Sin Of Lack Of Care
I HEARD recently of a surgeon not being available to do an emergency life-saving operation at a National Health hospital because he was busy doing a breast beautifying job at a......
No Answer
RE your report "Birth Control No Answer" (September 21). In a perfect world a large family is a most desirable blessing but it does need the presence and concern of a mother and......
Orthodox Approach Of Way
I was very interested to read (October 12) of the official recognition by the Pope of the Neocatechumenal Way as "an itinerary of Catholic formation valid for today's society -......
The Benefits Of A Married Clergy
WITH all the debates which have raged on in the church over the last few years about married priests, I wonder if practical ideals have ever been taken into account. I am not......