Page 5, 6th December 1996

6th December 1996
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Heritage Of A Very British Devotion

B RITISH CATHOLICS have sometimes been regarded with a certain suspicion by their Protestant neighbours, not least because Catholicism has been seen as "foreign". Yet the......

Dad, Don And Now Deacon

ODAY I complete the sixth month of my diaconate. I am still new enough to be able to count the formal things. Thus far I have baptised four children and presided at one marriage......

No Clamour?

Then let's shout MF,LANIE MCDONAGH T HERE ARE some subjects where one is ruled entirely by contrariness. Women's ordination is one. It is those who argue vehemently about the......

The Journalist's Dilemma: Do I Report — Or Act?

GAYE ORTIZ MEDIA WATCH N 0 MAN IS an island." This is the title of a radio series by BBC journalist Fergal Keane, and John Donne's famous phrase seems to sum up the attitude of......