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Theology's Role In Regard Of Rome's Curia
OFFICIAL Vatican documents are never easy for ordinary mortals to understand with their mixture of arcane language and complex ideas. The new Instruction on the Ecclesial......
Mysticism Has Nothing To Do With Gender
I AM dismayed at the article on mysticism by Sr Fances Teresa OSC (June 22). She has difficulty in finding ten male mystics! Has she not read the Old Testament and found the......
Minded
W HAT right does Hilary Fenten (June 15) have to accuse the church of "increasing narrowness". As it clearly taught in the Bible and by tradition, the Catholic church and the......
I Was Sorry To Read Of Fr Lyons' Distress (june8)
at the Redemptorists helpline, 1 decided to ring all the numbers soon after seeing the advertisement on the front page of your paper, and I considered each of the "homilettes"......
More Women Than Men
GERARD Noel (June 15) repeats the oft-used statement that women outnumber men in congregations. I decided to check this some months ago. I counted the number of men queuing to......
It Was Good To See (june 22) The Picture Of
Pedro and Blanca sent to you by the BBC to mark the second showing of the story of their adoption. We are most grateful to the many who have contributed to the appeal for clean......
It Is Good News That The Revised Funeral Book Due
for pwilication later this year will contain a rite which, Mrs Jennifer Demolder tells us (June 15), "recognises the status of babies which are miscarried". This prompts me to......
Irrelevance Of All Apparitions
YOUR front page report on apparitions in Galway (June 22) reinforces a prejudice I have always held against these alleged manifestations of the Virgin Mary. The two "seers",......
Wise Words From Kent
CONGRATULATIONS to Bruce Kent for his article on the British anti-Irish bias (June 25). I remember in Ireland in the 1930s our teacher who was an ex-soldier in the first World......
Liverpool's Teacher Advocate For The Poor And
dehumanised Obituary CATHOLIC MP Sean Hughes, Labour member for Knowsley South and a shadow defence minister, died this week at the age of 44. Labour leader Neil Kinnock praised......