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A Chance To Bury Memories Of The Williamson Affair
P ope Benedict XVI’s visit to the Holy Land, which encompasses Jordan as well as the Palestinian territories, represents a formidable challenge for the Holy Father. He will have......
Playing The Da Vinci Game
T he hunt is on for Catholic clerics who will say something bad about the new Dan Brown film. As we write, hardpressed hacks are no doubt working their way through the Catholic......
Catholic Dilemmas I Am Thinking Of Starting A Catholic Blog
but I am unsure whether to use my real name and I am not sure what I should avoid saying – or even if I have anything useful to say at all. Using your real name does make you......
Orthodox Catholics Are Not Free To Regard Genesis As A Myth
From Mr Donal Anthony Foley SIR – Regarding Peter Wilson’s letter (April 24) critical of the one published by David Brower (April 17), he apparently disagrees with the position......
The Eternal Truth
From Mr Patrick J Milner SIR – It was with great sadness that I read Debra Maria Flint’s attempt to undermine the entire teaching authority of the Church, while labelling a......
Celebrating The Miracle Of Human Conception
From Mr Edmund Adamus, director of the department for pastoral a f fairs of the Diocese of Westminster SIR – Your reference to the “blastocyst” (Report, April 26) in describing......
A Jaundiced Vision Of Modern Parish Life
From Mrs Elizabeth Price SIR – What sad reading was Dominic Scarborough’s article on his personal perception of parish life (Comment, April 24). How superficially judgmental is......
Building Our Faith
From Mr Ray Knight SIR – We seldom have a public debate with the potential of that in the correspondence on “the age of miracles” begun by James Hamilton (Letters, April 24).......
Mass For The Workers
From Mr Peter Littleton SIR – I would like to put the following question to parish priests who may read this paper. For the last two or three years, while having been a student......
A Purified Church
From Mr Simon Reynolds SIR – As an aged cradle Catholic who, like Piers Paul Read, experienced a Benedictine education, I would like to respond to Fr Clovis and Mr Read’s......
No Fairytale Vision
From Miss Ruth Yendell SIR – I feel I must come to the defence of Victoria Gillick (Letters, April 10). Down here in Devon and indeed in most of the south west her vision of......
A Faithful Servant
From Hedley Perry SIR – There must be many Catholics who wish Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue a long and enjoyable retirement (Report, April 24). His Fit for Mission? series is a......
Testing The Evidence
From Mr John Martyn SIR – In your report (April 17) about Archbishop Nichols’s comments on the advertising of condoms and abortion services you quote remarks by Professor......
Applause For Ed Balls
From Mrs Jean Keenan SIR – Your headline (Report, May 1) announces: “Ed Balls asks Catholics to foot £100m school bill.” We then go on to read that £100m is 10 per cent of the......