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How Can This Be A Just War?
Is IT POSSIBLE, at this stage of the campaign against Slobodan Milosevic, to know with any sureness what our moral reaction to the Nato bombings of Serbia and Montenegro ought......
Defining The Sacraments
From Revd. Bernard J. Davenport Sir, I have just read Fr Rolheiser's article (12 March), in which he defines a sacrament as "anything that visibly, tangibly, makes present or......
Voices For Heads
From Mr Edward Hayes Sir, I feel compelled to correct an assertion attributed to the spokesman for the new Association of Catholic Headteachers (March 19). According to your......
`reordering' Churches
From Mr TG Oliver Sir, At a time when many parishes are struggling to maintain the very fabric of their properties, why re-order churches and cathedrals? As an accounting......
The Future Of St Patrick's, Leeds: The Authorised Version...
the Revd Christopher J. Willis Sir, Matthew Wright's letter on St Patrick's, Leeds (March 19), contains several inaccuracies. The correct history of the parish is well......
The Debate Over Women Deacons
From Ms Wendy Field Sir, With reference to the women deacons debate, I normally agree with Daphne McLeod, but I think that a greater extension of the diaconate for both men and......
Thirty Years Ago
Heenan defends religion in schools THE NEED FOR RELIGION is greater than ever, with public morality on the wane, says Cardinal Heenan in an article in the Times Educational......
Sixty Years Ago
Holy Week, 1939 THE FAMOUS RETORT that "Christianity has not failed: it has not been tried" naturally comes to mind in this Holy Week of 1939 when the accumulated injustices,......
Caffeine High
THOSE who argue that religious education has reached its lowest ebb on these shores might take some comfort from a recent survey of Italian schoolchildren. Asked how they would......
Meek And Mild
NATIONAL institution Fr Michael Seed, Cardinal Hume's "Great Converter", proved at the launch party for the new edition of his classic Will I See You in Heaven? that he is as......
Double Vision
SAINT-IN-WAITING Padre Pio (pictured below) was gifted in many ways, but none more so than in his practice of bi-location, the handy knack of appearing in two places at the same......
Mad By Name...
LUNATIC of the week award goes to one Sheikh Muhamad Hassan, who has accused beleaguered Israeli Miss World (and Muslim) Rana Raslan (pictured above right) of being "the secret......
Send In The Clowns
ENTERPRISING Catholics in Padua are taking the Good News to circuses and amusement parks. I wish their mission to bearded ladies, lion tamers, talking pigs and dwarfs every......
Possessed
THE E-mail address of the Liturgy Office of the Bishops' Conference? It's office@liturgy.demon.co.uk. Time for a little exorcism, boys?......
And The Winner Is
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of our lady-in-a-phone-box caption competition. Brighton belle Monica McLaughlan ("Hello Dr, Who said that I wasn't Dalektable?) came up with the......