Page 4, 29th July 1988
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Time To Grasp Nhs Nettle
ONE CAN only most fondly hope that the Prime Minister's soft-shoe shuffle of this week will, at long last, have the effect of rejuvenating and thoroughly overhauling the......
Relativity Of Relics
WE may have to brace ourselves for a shock when the results of the carbon-testing of the alleged "Holy Shroud"of Turin are announced in October. Advance news suggests that it......
Any Port In The Storm Of Faith?
Virginia Barton ship, it was the ship that deserted me". This is an apt description by someone who stopped practising their religion. Very often the ship is indeed to blame. but......
Fools Or Prophets?
'CHOSE of us who work for nuclear disarmament are often dismissed as cranks. Yet are we really so foolish when there is a very grave moral decision to be made about this issue?......
Long Live Pastoral Action
IT was good to read in The Herald that Westminster diocese's Social and Pastoral Action agency (July 22) is to continue. The service it provides is invaluable. There are many......
Spiritual Acas To Resolve Women's Needs
J.P. Wroe wonders why a reader thought that a women's dialogue with the bishops couldn't provide an opportunity to discuss the ordination of women (22 July). Was it perhaps......
Towards A Better World
I WAS glad to read John Medcalf's recent Letter to Nicaragua (July 8) which points out some of our problems in first world England. William Wilberforce, and his friends, helped......
Nicaragua
JOHN Medcalf's clear vision of life in Britain (July 8) serves as a timely reminder of the moral corruption eating away at the heart of our society and provides a stark contrast......
Explaining Bias Like Talking To A Sir Patrick Wall
MAJOR Sir Patrick Wall accuses the CH of an anti-Pope, anti-Conservative Party stance, (July 15). The first charge is absurd and perhaps by the second he means antiThatcherite.......
Back Row Of Pews
HIERARCHY, religious and lay Catholics are keen to give money and time to fight against abortion and other things, meet in groups, and all the rest. But I am a mother and there......