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The Pope’s Anglican Offer Is Just The Start Of A Journey
S ome fearful nonsense has been talked about Pope Benedict’s as yet unpublished Apostolic Constitution offering corporate reunion to Anglicans who want to preserve some of their......
Should Pope Benedict Have Consulted Widely Before...
From Lord Hylton SIR – A key question for the reuniting of all baptised believers is how will “the primacy” of the Bishop of Rome in practice be exercised? This has so far been......
Renewing Canada
From Anne Côté-Harriss SIR – I so enjoyed reading Michael Coren’s article (Feature, October 16). I am a French Canadian who married an Englishman, and so have lived in Britain......
Civil War Anecdotes
From Estelle Cooch SIR – I am a history student at the London School of Economics currently doing my dissertation on the attitude of working-class Catholics involved in the......
The Fry-hitchens Debacle Should Be A Wake-up Call For...
From Elizabeth C Sweeney SIR – Having attended the debate (Report, October 23) last week, at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, where the motion “The Catholic Church is a......
Mother Angelica Deserves More Recognition For Her Amazing...
From Mike and Julie Stewart SIR – Your item (Report, October 16) on the papal award of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice to Mother Mary Angelica, foundress of The Eternal Word......
Catholic Dilemmas I Was Pleased To See That So Many
people turned out to venerate the relics of St Thérèse but I am a little puzzled: did we not do away with such devotions after Vatican II? Vatican II is widely misunderstood as......
Thought
FOR THE WEEK [Faith] is not a conclusion from premisses but the result of an act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty. – Cardinal Newman......