Page 15, 29th April 2005

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The Other Election

Catholics should make their cross count Our exclusive interview with the Conservative leader Michael Howard a few weeks ago led some readers to assume that the Herald’ s colour......

Thank You, Auntie

The BBC has served Catholics brilliantly The BBC has not, it is fair to say, received much praise from this newspaper over the past few years. From its strident campaign against......

Hell Is Other People

As a certain editor has just discovered Three weeks ago, the New Statesman disgraced itself by marking the death of Pope John Paul II with a front cover blaming him for “doing......

50 Years Ago This Week

This paper takes no party political stand, but it believes that Catholic electors should study carefully what the effects of the General Election may be on a cause that must be......

Injecting New Dignity Into Our Worship

From Mr Anthony McClaran SIR – I wish to endorse Bernard Marriott’s call (Letters, April 15) for a “concerted effort” by our bishops and priests to ensure that it is not only......

Ambassador Of Faith

From Mr Stuart Kitching SIR – I believe that the Catholic community of this country owes a debt of gratitude to BBC television for its coverage of the death and funeral of Pope......

Time For Action

From Mrs Patti Fordyce SIR – Your second leading article (April 22) sounds a timely and important note. At the time of Pope John Paul’s visit to Britain in 1982 it seemed that......

A Warm Welcome For Pope Benedict Xvi

From Jocelyn Rowe SIR – I would like to express the heartfelt joy of so many, many Catholics at the election of our brave new Pope, Benedict XVI. We salute his courage in......

Comfortable Clergy

From Mr Ian Cairns SIR – I was somewhat dismayed by your reference to “Europe’s lethargic laity” and the “places that the clergy cannot reach” (Leading article, April 15). Thus......

Joy For The Ratzinger Generation

I was waiting for the carpenter to arrive when the white smoke appeared last Tuesday, and thus it was that when he eventually rang the bell he must have wondered what on earth......