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Geldof Gives Britain A Lead
ALMOST the whole of this week has been taken up with a crucial debate at the United Nations General Assembly on the critical situation in Africa. It comes on the heels of the......
A Divorce Misquote
IN OUR leader last week we asked if the Catholic Church in Ireland might seem to have been exhibiting less faith in its own people than the Government because of its......
The People Speak Out
Viewpoint Below we present edited extracts from the recently published summary of responses to the 'Called To Serve' THE most frequently mentioned worries were unemployment,......
A Collective Good Out Of The Ashes Of Chernobyl
I WAS very interested in the article by Dr Peter Hodgson (May 16) about the Chernobyl disaster. I would like to thank him for an interesting and readable summary of a subject......
A Full Potential
I WRITE to comment on Mrs Evered's article "removing the Caring mask" on May 9. I regret the negative image Mrs Evered has been given of the new policies, though I agree with......
Of The Free Spirit
SURELY Karen Armstrong's book The Gospel According to Woman (reviewed May 16) would be more accurately titled "The Gospel According to Feminists"? They claim to represent the......
A Slur On Guyana Church I Was Shocked By Your
report (May 16) of Amerindian dancers in London which cast slurs on Catholic Church leaders in Guyana. Everyone familiar with Guyana is aware of the oppression in that country......
The Sin And The Sinner
WITH further reference to the situation in Nicaragua, revealed by Fr Medcalf (April 25), and many representatives of Pax Christi who have visited that unhappy country, I would......
God Bless The Royal Family
JOHN Halton (whom I knew many years ago and am pleased to see that he is still going strong) may like to know (Letters, May 2) that in this part of the world, not very far from......
Republicanism With A Tinge
JOHN O'LEARY'S and Dr Kevin Morris's somewhat obtuse and ad horninem criticism of me is met by the endorsement by Eamonn Andrews of the "IONA" idea for British-Irish......
Probing The After Life
WE ARE preparing a series of programmes for BBC 2 about life after death. We need to find people who have experienced close brushes with death through illness or accident,......