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Disestablishment Is Now A Matter Of Life And Death
IN A SPEECH to the House of Lords, opening the private member's debate on human cloning he had initiated, Lord Alton warned of listening to siren arguments (which duly......
Thirty Years Ago
Women jump over the sanctuary rails SEVERAL FORMS of the Canon but one Mass and one Missal: this is the main message of the Pope's decree codifying, as it were, the piecemeal......
Sixty Years Ago
French Cardinals urge higher birth rate "WE FIRMLY believe that one of the chief causes of the general unrest and the appalling crisis which has us in its clasp is the......
Natural Fertility From Mrs Veronica Pierson Sir, Thank...
your articles by Simon Caldwell "Natural fertility method `five times better' than IVF" and "Making test tube fertilisation a thing of the past" and subsequent correspondence.......
More On Special Bread
From Mr Michael J Cowie Sir, Reading Janet Burr's quotes from the Brussehnans Golden Book in her letter "Why the bread of Eucharist is 'special — serves to highlight for me only......
Sexaholics Anonymous
From a priest Sir, Following on from Fr Rolheiser's article "An Unglamorous Sickness", your readers may like to know of an organisation which may be of help to some. It is......
East Timor: Religious Motives
Sir, Catherine Scott of the Catholic Institute for International Relations is wrong to dismiss outright a religious motive for the persecution of East Timor's Catholic majority......
Do Pro-life Bodies Need To Communicate Better?
From Dr Cheryl Woodcroft Sir, On belatedly reading the Letters from your issue of March 26, I felt I must write to support the views of Dr Martin Lupton as expressed the......
Quite So
From Mr P Glover Sir, Martin Marprelate (Lamb's Passage, 30 April) concludes a flippant article about the next Bishop of Argyll and the Isles by saying that Roddy Wright will be......
Torkback
From Mr P Chen Sir, What on earth is David TorIcington torkkg about? (23 April) I'm utterly bewildered. Yours faithfully-, PETER CHElL„ Wetley Rock,3taffs.......
Clergy Assessment: The Report
From the Rt Revd Hugh Lindsay Sir, I am sorry my letter did not reassure Father M R Lewis (letters, 30 April). His assessment was made before the report was published. He goes......
Sir, Fr Cunningham's Article (23rd April) Hits The Mark In
its criticism of the proposed appraisal of priests. As a recent convert to the Catholic faith, I was dismayed to read that what I believed to be a haven from the imposition of......
Table Manners
THE Tablet Table, that sacred institution of the Catholic intelligentsia, has been reconstituted in a farsighted bid to reduce the average age of members somewhere below the 90......