Page 4, 29th March 1985
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The Lesson To Be Learned By Heart
THE QUESTION was asked in last week's Catholic Herald as to why any plans for commemorating the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador......
Racism And Christian Anti-semitism
WHILST applauding any genuine attempts to counteract the anti-Semitic views of some Christian theolgians, one becomes alarmed when these attempts appear to verge toward the......
Our Debt To The Vatican
I REFER to reports re the Vatican debt of £25 million and, in particular, to the fact that a Vatican Council is to compose a suitably-worded request to send to the world's 2,422......
A Nation
divided I AM SURE most Irish readers read with some surprise in Charterhouse on March 8 that Archbishop Bruno Heim is celebrating his third anniversary of his appointment as the......
Sound Base For Pastoral Work
POPE JOHN PAUL has said on more than one occasion that pastoral activity is illusory unless it is based on sound doctrine, and for that reason the suggestion made by the Head of......
Robert, A Life To Thank God For
Mary Eyre affords us a fascinating glimpse at the sixth of her eight children, who enjoys a unique lifestyle and who freely gives his own brand of love to the Eyre household AS......
The Real Threat In South America
WE HEAR a good deal of the threat to the Church in Eastern Europe from officially inspired atheism. However, until Francis Khoo's article on March 15 surprisingly little has......
The Right To Be Wrong
WIT 1-1 REFERENCE to Rev Clifton March 9, it is unrealistic to expect legislation to outlaw contraception and divorce in a multifaith and atheistic society such as our own. We......
The 'filth' That Is Homosexuality
I THANK Anthony Pepe for the forthright letters of the 15th March, about the sin of homosexuality. It is bad enough when genuine homosexuals claim irresistible compulsion to......
A Question Of Rubrics
I WAS appalled to read the third instalment of Fr Deryck Hanshell's article, February 22. In it he describes how the Penitential Rite and the Liturgy of the Word should be......
Ordination Day!
The joy of Fr•Torror and his mother Father Torror was lucky. In 1983 about 500 candidates for the priesthood had to be turned away in Asia and Africa as there was no room for......