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One Slow Step At A Time
"GREAT ACTS TAKE time," Cardinal Newman warned in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. The Church of England bishops met last week to agree upon pastoral provisions for those Anglicans......
A Saturday Night Special
IT HAD TO happen: the man who claimed the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as his favourite book has swapped the wisdom of his Stoic guru for the muscle-bound militarism of......
One Does Not Have To Be An Evangelical Christian To
find oneself deeply at odds with the message put out by Bronwen Astor in her piece about New Age spirituality (Catholic Herald, 18 June). Lady Astor's article, well intentioned......
In His Fascinating Article On The Catholic Church In East
Timor in last week's Catholic Herald, Joao Boavida shows the ways in which the Church has been challenged, in the face of the sufferings of an occupied country, to identify with......
A Church Open To Helpful Criticism
THERE IS NOTHING "undignified" about pninting criticism of the Catholic Church, as Freda Marlin, in last week's letters page suggests. On the contrary, it is good for every......
A Letter From El Salvador
I HAVE BEEN ASKED by Fr John Medcalf in El Salvador to convey his heartfelt thanks to all the Catholic Herald readers who have contributed towards the San Ramon Building Fund. I......
Why We Need Sex Education In Schools
THE RECENT STATEMENT by Baroness Blatch regarding the status of HIV and sex education in schools, (Catholic Herald, 25 June) far from settling the controversy is likely to fuel......
Desmond Albrow
Doing the decent thing: the lessons of history MICHAEL MATES HAS done the decent thing and walked the plank, but most of us would have been more impressed if he had taken the......
Jehovah's Witnesses Can Find God Too
I WAS SURPRISED to find the Catholic Herald, a newspaper that I have always found to be ecumenical in spirit, running a front page report last week on how the Italian bishops......
Medjugorje And A Miracle Of Peace
RECENTLY YOU RAN a piece by the religious and defence correspondent of The Observer, Peter Beaumont, who had just returned from Medjugorje (Catholic Herald, 18 June). He quoted......
A Special Thanks To Forward Publishing For The Catholic...
new design THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, Editor and staff of the Catholic Herald woulc' like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Forward Publishing for making possible the new look......
And Moreover...
"YOUR LEADER ON the Church's response to priests guilty of child abuse and May Gandy's letter on the same subject (Catholic Herald, 14 June) prompts a query about the......