Page 2, 4th October 1957

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Catholic Magazines

Religious and Secular Matters S IR,--We hear frequent authoritative appeals for the support of Catholic newspapers and magazines and few would deny the responsibility of the......

S Ir,-i Was Very Interested By The Various Comments Upon...

article which you published recently and appreciated the tributes to my general contentions. I believe Mr. Maguire is a 'brother architect, hence his taking the subject into......

Approved Schools And The Wolfenden Report

is recommended in the Wolfenden Report that the headmasters of approved schools should be afforded the same discretion in regard to homosexual offences among boys as is allowed......

An Unnecessary Crisis

S IR, - The current crisis has arisen because we are unable to pay for our imports from abroad with exports, and have to pay out gold and dollars to meet the difference. Between......

Hotels & Guest Houseslondon

A BRIGHT HOTEL ter. Marble Arch), from: 5i ans. weekly, 21/6 daily. Includes 3-course breakfast, H. & C.W.-'Phone: Restaurant White Park Hotel, 9. Lancaster Gate, W.2 (PAD 8406)......

Widowers Too?

SIR, - After quoting the Pope on the indestructibility of the ties of human love implicit in marriage and the Church's consequent preference for widowhood rather than......

Consoling Words

I hope, with all my heart that the Pope's words on widowhood have comforted others as they have me. I have no children and was widowed in my early thirties, seven years ago. I......

Dtsplaced

Persons in Germany S m, - Now that Dr. Adenauer is safely re-elected could not something be done about the Displaced Persons (mostly Poles), still in camps in Germany ? 1......

Saint Hugh And Hunting

. Q1R,-0n reading the legend of St. Hubert in your issue of September 13 1 was surprised and disillusioned to learn that St. Hubert is regarded in ecclesiastical circles as the......

Monte Cassino

S IR,-At the time we were informed by responsible authority that military necessity required the bombing of this priceless Christian landmark. Now we are told the bombing of the......

The Lonely Can Be Strong

S IR' I also am a convert to the Catholic Church, and have experienced this lack of fellowship with other Catholics. and the con sequent loneliness. But it is now eleven years......

Skilled Wages

qIR, Since Mr. Westbrook has such a thorough grasp of statistics, perhaps he would tell us how the wages and salaries of skilled workers and technicians have kept pace with the......

Here's The Answer

Is it necessary that a child conditionally baptised, by a midwifi for instance, be rebaptised by the priest. Two quite separate questions seem here to be confused. If a child......

Walsingham And Our Lady

S iR'Many letters have appeared in recent editions of your paper on the subject of devotion to Our Lady. If, as most letters suggest, Catholics are so devoted to her, may I ask......

The Shrine Of Saint Peter

SI R ' I have only just noticed that in your issue of September 13. a review of "The Shrine of ,St. Peter" is carried, ascribing it to Pantheon Books of New York. While it is......

Our Lady At Liverpool

S IR ' Is it not an error on Mr. John Gurdon's part to say that Henry It's cook left his gold collar to the image of Our Lady at Liverpool? Henry 11 preceded King John in whose......

Tobias And The Angel

SIR' I read with considerable irritation the version of the book of Tobias in your last week's issue under the title "Watchers of Our Ways." I he whole point of the tale is lost......

Plain English

S IR, You have been deservedly praised for naming September 8, in your Daily Mass Guide, as the Feast of Our Lady's Birthday (rather than her nativity); but why. 01 why do you......

S Ir,-thank You For Seeing That The Problem Of The "isolated

convert" is sufficiently important to warrant an editorial comment. Like many other converts I could cap the troubles of " Disillusioned" over and over again. The isolation is......