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A Time For Unity Not Nationalism
EUROPE from Ireland in the West to the Urals in the East is a somewhat paradoxical continent at the moment. While the western Europeans — few notable ex-prime ministers excepted......
September Sadnesses
SEPTEMBER is here again to remind us of sterner, more dutiful days ahead. It is a month flecked by autumnal sadness, signals the fall of the final curtain on the happy......
Facing The Facts On Gay Catholics
I HAVE not followed the intricacies of the debate over the church's teaching on homosexuality reported over the last few weeks, although I have read a number of the related......
Think Again, Bruce
I WOULD like to contradict Bruce Kent in his article on the downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev (August 23). He claims that had the West been even minimally generous, it did not have......
Chinese Puzzle
HERE in faraway Hong Kong I have just seen your issue of August 2 with Peter Hebblethwaite's interesting Charterhouse Chronicle. The reference to Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei......
Slip Of The Zero
IN his letter of August 23, Dr Peter Doherty of the Guild of Catholic Doctors wrote of a one per cent risk of severe haemorrhage for women taking the abortion pill R U486. A......
Textual Evidence
I WAS interested to read Dr Elizabeth Stuart's letter (August 16), in particular her suggestion that the church's teaching "has no real basis in scripture". I wonder how she......
Face Up To Ira
I WOULD like to express my criticism of part of your editorial comment (August 23) concerning excommunication and the IRA. I am a 31-year-old English Catholic who has practised......
Do Gooders?
None of it! NEXT week-end September 13-15, will be a very busy one or the many members of the Catholic Women's League who will be meeting together at Exeter University for the......
Left And Right Lie
WHY does Bruce Kent repeat the political lie that the abortive coup by die-hard communists in the Soviet Union was by rightwingers? When, during the last 74 years, did the far......