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Theology And Sex Instruction
S m,-Miss Barclay appears to have missed the essential point of my previous letters. Instruction of Catholic children in sexual matters by their parents (or by those in loco......
Church And Capital Punishment •
S IR,-Sometimes reading your columns in the past I think that readers may have had the im pression that the Church was in favour of capital punishment perhaps an unconscious......
Real And Parrot Catechism
S ilt.-"Factory Worker" is more than a little modest in describing himself as an adult of dull intellect; 1 should be a happier man if I thought that a quarter of the children I......
St. Bernadette
S IR,-Would it not be a fitting climax to the Lourdes Centenary if the Hierarchy would petition for the extension of the Mass and Office of St. Bernadette to this country? At......
Prayers For Deaf Children
Sir,-The National Deaf Children's Society will he most grateful if you will publish this request to your readers to remember in their prayers, especially during the month of......
The Catholic 'who's Who' Sir'
-It will be a great pity if SIR' -It will be a great pity if this work cannot be published again. It is not a "snobs' Bible", but an accurate and interesting reference book.......
Wellhury Park, Nr. Hitchin, Herts.
Your Used Papers S IR.-1 should be very much obliged to you if you would allow me to appeal for old magazines, newspapers and the like for my mission. I am living in a small......
Morality Of The Closed Shop
S 'R." The closed shop is a Catholic thing " is the quotation you associate with a Catholic priest. I need some convincing that this thing can be squared with Catholic......
'de Angelis' And 'pop' Hymns
S IR,-How any musical person can call plainchant settings of the Mass "ghastly" I am quite unable to fathom. Much of the De Angelis is rather poor stuff, admittedly, but the......
St. Anne's House, Sheffield
QIR,-In the issue of May 8 there is a report of the opening of the extension to St. Anne's House, Sheffield: "Flatlet accommodation . . . has been doubled to fourteen. by......
Mary Young
(Hon. Secretary) C.W.L.. Sheffield Section.......
C.t.s. Pamphlet Recommended
McGoldrick and Vera Barclay are optimistic if they expect many Catholics to buy, understand, and explain the books they have mentioned. What is needed is something short, cheap......
Is It Not A Pity?
SIR,-At an early Low Mass in a semi-public oratory on W'hit Sunday, after the Gospel came the notices. These were rather long. and concluded with a long appeal about a......
A Bad Business
is one's duty to contribute to the support of one's religion. but it is unfortunately my experience that it is not generally appreciated by those who receive money that they......
Senator Kennedy's Answers
QI12. - May I comment upon your news-report (CATHOLIC HERALD, April 17) of the aflaire Kennedy. Your correspondent states that the publication of an interview given to "Look......
Nyasaland And Federation
S 1R, - The over-simplification of a problem through bias, ignorance or wishful thinking clouds and complicates matters. Our troubles in Nyasaland arise from a state of affairs......
Historical Axe-grinding
S IR.-As Mr. Pinnington, who cannot so lightly dismiss the witness of early Fathers with a Mediterranean origin. advances five "positive" arguments against me, may I be......
Jacopone Da Todi
SIR.-Will you please tell me if the mystic Jacopone da Todi, 1228-1306, has been canonised or if his cause has ever been put forward? Very Interested The cultus of Jacopone da......