Page 5, 6th June 1975
Page 5
Challenge To Fr Howell
Two and a half valuable columns of your May 23 letters page have been wasted by Fr Clifford Howell's boring chapterand-verse attack on Mr St John-Stevas for describing the......
Latin Mass Stayed Up To Henry's Death
N. M. Hyland (May 23) says the Council of Trent abolished all liturgies which could - not show a use of at least 200 years, and asks if there were any dissenters in the 16th......
Issue On Reforms Is Not Legality
In his letter of May 23, Fr Clifford Howell, S.J. says that Catholics are duty bound to abide by the authorised changes in the liturgy of the Church as implemented by local •......
Church's Silent Majority
May I thank you for two things in your issue of May 30? First, your third leader with its fine and true words: "No Catholic can do other than reject Communism — and reject it......
'babies For Burning'
It is reported in your May 30 issue that Michael Litchfield, co-author of "Babies for Burning," has "taken legal proceedings" against the Sunday Times following allegations in......
Strange, Confused Utterance
In the quotation from the Pope given by Fr Howell (May 23) there is not a single word from start to finish to indicate that the Words are spoken ex cathedra. Indeed, the......
Uninspiring English Of The New Mass
Miss Molly Evison (May 23) sums up the practical situation excellently. "More Catholics than will ever be known attend the new Mass with distress and distaste because they have......
Boring And Barren Argument
How sorry one is to see that after all this time some correspondents are still "belly-aching" and "nitpicking" about the "new" liturgy. Pace free speech, isn't it about time......
Mr Wall And Bishop Lamont
Some time ago I wrote a letter which you published criticising Bishop Lamont's statement on Rhodesia on the grounds that it was very one-sided and in some cases not factually......
Antidote To Violence?
Kevin McNamara ex pressed the opinion of contless parents — and grandparents — in his article of May 23. We do worry about the teaching of religion. But perhaps we should have......
Pope And Holy Spirit
As one of the Protestant observers at the recent Catholic Charismatic Congress in Rome, may I comment on your report in your issue of May 23? The rather negative headline ("Pope......
Mod And Trad
Perhaps the following anecdote would help to answer the. questions posed by Mr J. Bein in his letter of May 30? A modernist and a traditionalist both went into church to pray.......
Hell Blamed
You mention in your leader on real religion, that the early Christian faith which knew nothing of "mortal" sin was terrifyingly real; devotion almost fanatically intense. May I......
For Bishops' Attention!
Thank God for your third editorial "History Lesson." In these trendy days it is good to read a no-nonsense condemnation of the anti-Christ which is enshrined in Communism. I......
Respect For The Cloth
May I suggest to those of the faithful who maintain a respect for time-honoured social and ecclesiastical customs and disciplines that a protest should be made, in the following......