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Make Your Pegs Firm For A Bazaar Advent
Vie w po i nt "HAVE you given any thought to Advent yet?" "With our Christmas Bazaar coming off next week, Lord! What with draw tickets, the bottle stall, the grocery stall, the......
Time To Lend An Ear To Thepulpit
WHEN it is announced from the pulpit or lectern that a patoral letter from the Bishop is about to be read in place of the usual homily, it is often painfully obvious that many......
Costly Human Nature
NEXT week will see the fiftieth anniversary of the abdication of King Edward VIII. Though several previous English monarchs have been forcibly, in one way or another, removed......
Special Sign
WE UNDERRATE the importance of signs in the sacraments at our peril. Yet that is precisely what Fr Michael Clifton (November 14) appears to do. An old theological tag reads:......
Anti-nuclear Debate
DR WILSON, in your letters column (November 7) feels that, concerning the nuclear pollution of our planet, I have been influenced by anti-nuclear people. He is right. Many......
Desire And Denial
WHILE it is a tradition that authors do not respond to their critics, I must make an exception in the case of Peter Stanford's comments on my book, Desire and Denial (October......
Helping Sufferers
THE RECENT correspondence from Fr Nixon and Dr B RhysWilliams on the pastoral care of mentally ill people reflects the concern expressed by the Bishops a few years ago. They......
Thanx From The Club
THANK you for mentioning the Friday Club project last week. Enough rent has been received to keep us going to the second week in January. One letter from a lady in Huddersfield......
Cell Days
MARY M Fraser's recent letter reminded me of my young days — like hers in the early 1950s. A small group of CELL members sold Catholic papers outside Brighton Station on Friday......
East Meets West . . .
REV S RAYMOND'S recent letter (November 14) feels that a remark by your reporter that the Holy Father in arranging the gathering in Asissi was "not accepting the erroneous......
A Minor St George's Day?
CAN anyone explain why in England St Georges Day is celebrated not as a Solemnity but only as a Feast. Ireland, Scotland and Wales celebrate their respective principal patron......
Battling Aids Together
CARDINAL HUME, you report, stated at the Bishops' Conference that the Catholic Church could not support the free public, distribution of condoms in order to prevent the spread......
Fr Dolly In The Spotlight
THE ADMIRABLE item in the Catholic Herald, by James Rockett last week, made reference to "Fr Dolly" Brookes, whom I was privileged to know until his death at the age of 86 and......
Bridging Gaps Of Faiths
I READ with much interest and pleasure the report in Charterhouse Chronicle November 14 of the sharing of church facilities in Brightlingsea and Great Bentley. On the other......