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Christ Still Calls Men To Risk Everything To Be With Him
Some 50 years ago a Catholic family regarded a vocation in one of its children to be a priest or a nun to be not only usual, but desirable — a matter of pride. Today, at least......
Holier By Design?
To the delight of sillier elements of the mass media Pope Benedict XVI has been spotted wearing various luxury baubles: Cartier spectacles, Serengetti sunglasses, Prada shoes......
The Truth In Your Pocket
When a leading "global branding" expert recently claimed that the Pope's endorsement is 100 times more valuable to a company than that of an A-list celebrity he probably wasn't......
Piñatas. What We Currently Associate As Meaningless...
from Mexico began as good old-fashioned Italian sin-bashing during the holy season of Lent. The idea of a piñata may have come from China via Marco Polo, but Italians in the......
Pastor Luventus Inspired By A People In Exile
Ti e weather forecasters were wrong: the bank holiday was a lovely, bright day, though not what you would call warm. Normally bank holidays don't make much difference to my......
Condoms And Aids: Does The Church Have Anything New To Add?
From Count de la Bedoyere SIR — I fear that the moral maze of conflicting views on condoms and Aids, referred to in your leading article (April 28) has more dead ends than first......
From The National Coordinator Of The Catholic Action...
— May I be bold enough to assert that all the Magisterial teaching up to this point — Sacred tradition, constant official teaching, recent pronouncements and papal encyclicals......
Appalling Ideas
From Mr Alan Bancroft SIR — This Government wants schoolchildren to have , graphic information about condoms (Report, March 31).1 don't know which is more appalling: the idea......
The Moral Dilemmas Of Nuclear Weaponry
From Mr Denis Pethebridge SIR — In your leading article about nuclear arms (April 21), you repeat the myth that the two atomic bombs dropped in 1945 brought "World War Two to an......
From Mr H Gallagher Sir — You Report (april 21)
some bishops as having called for unilateral nuclear disarmament, but this was certainly not the view of the late Pope John Paul II. In his message for the Church's 16th World......
Ewtn Appeal
From Fr Joseph McMahon SIR — EWTN is a global Catholic network that originated in the United States but is now making Catholic television and radio available in Britain. It......
Lack Of Perspective
From Fons Eppink MI - IM SIR —I read with great interest your review of the film Shooting Dogs (Arts, April 7).1 found myself in total agreement with your reviewer's reflection......
The Vatican Is Merely Tolerating Medjugorje
From Mr Donal Anthony Foley SIR — Regarding Mgr George TUtto's letter (April 28) on Medjugorje, and his criticism of your report (April 21) of the ad limina visit of Bishop......