Page 5, 3rd March 1978
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Sidetract
a 13i-weekly column One of the world's wanderers SAM, let us call him, is the kind of man whom some people despise and others pity. He is also a very likeable man — a "rogue" of......
Following Christ Through Suffering
Fr Michael Hollings continues our series of Lent meditations. I DO NOT LIKE suffering. I do not want to suffer. I instinctively shrink from and try to avoid suffering. For in me......
The Truth About Immigration, Race And Nationality
Ann Dummett, research worker for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants looks at the facts underlying the dispute about race relations and immigration. THREE very......
The Fatal Drain
Ireland still pours out of her lifestream in emigration. Dufing the past year there left the country no fewer than 32,535 emigrants, 88 out ol every hundred going to America,......
Peculiar Trade Some Peculiar Trades Come To Light At Times.
A few days ago, a poor fellow in Paris constituted himself a prisoner because he could no longer get anything to eat or earn his living for want of decent clothes. It appears......
Drink Bill
The drink bill keeps rising. And that, too, not in proportion to the increase in population, but more than that. In 1896 the national expenditure on drink amounted to an average......
Partition Protest
The Cardinal Primate of Ireland, in his Lenten Pastoral — issued from the Primatial See which is still cut off from the nation to which it belongs and which spiritually it leads......
Scripture Notebook
By Henry Wansbrough OSB How God chose David as king Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16: David is anointed king There are two versions in the Bible of David's first appearance in......