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Africans Have Got The True Measure Of Pope Benedict
A s many as a million Africans attended a Mass in Luanda, Angola, celebrated by the Holy Father on Sunday. Given that the city itself has a population of under five million,......
The Twilight Of Conscience
P resident Barack Obama and Cardinal Francis George, head of the US bishops’ conference, sat down for talks in the Oval Office last week. The meeting, which was widely......
Catholic Dilemmas
By Fr Tim Finigan There is a growing trend in favour of “green” funerals. Are there any problems with the Catholics using biodegradable coffins or woodland burial? Catholics may......
Pope Benedict Is Not Muddled When He Pronounces On Condoms
From Fr Bryan Storey SIR – How ridiculous to suggest the Pope is muddling things up over the condom issue (Report, March 20). As with other so-called communication problems......
Respecting Dignity
From Mr B J Toolan SIR – President Obama speaks for abortion, votes for abortion, and allocates money for abortion. Anyone who says that he is not pro-abortion is clearly......
Using Innocents
From the general secretary of Catholic Concern for Animals SIR – I write concerning your report “EU ‘to put animals before embryos’ ” (March 20). While members of Catholic......
Indisputable Greats
From Mr Alan Pavelin SIR – Most “best film” polls voted by the public consist almost entirely of recent Hollywood blockbusters. It was refreshing, therefore, to see the list of......
Cardinal Pell And The Meaning Of Vatican Ii
From Mr Kevin O’Neill SIR – I am grateful to Cardinal Pell for articulating a specific teaching of Vatican II to which traditionalists are required to adhere, namely, that a......
Utterly Permissive
From the general manager of the Latin Mass Society SIR – Tom McIntyre (Letters, March 20) threw up a smokescreen of vague words to hide his commitment to intemperate positions......
Removing Choice
From the Revd Richard Martin SIR – May I, as the former chaplain and head of religious studies at Magdalen College School, Oxford from 1992 to 2002, send my heartiest......
Darwin’s Legacy
From Mr Donal Anthony Foley SIR – Regarding Peter Dyson’s quotations (Letters, March 20) from Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species : they are really immaterial as far as......