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Celebrating Pluralism
THE HERALD WELCOMES the new Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland, Dr Sean Brady, now Ireland's most senior Churchman. Like all bishops he has his "flock" to tend,......
Soccer And Sacrament
UNTIL NOW MIXING Christianity and football has been a disaster. Indeed, one could say that they have been competitors. And where they have been combined, most notoriously in......
Divergent Views On Common Ground
I AM SORRY to read that the leaders of LIFE and SPUC are taking such a negative stand against the bishops' discussion document The Common Good, although I suppose it is......
Don't Starve To Be Holy
I WAS INTERESTED to read the report on the anorexia convention in Tuscany (Catholic Herald, 25 October). It implied that some of the medieval saints may have suffered from......
Don't Let Blair And Pals Fool You, Melanie
MELANIE MCDONAGH, high on my list of most respected columnists, seems to have joined the unfortunate world of piety politics when she gives her vote to Tony Blair as the......
Sponsorship For Vocations?
ANYONE READING the interview of Annabelle Whitestone with Mgr John Corcoran (Catholic Herald, 18 October), must have been moved by the fact that so many young people abroad with......
Pray For East Timor
ON 12 NOVEMBER it will be five years since the massacre of over 270 East Timorese, by the Indonesian army in Santa Cruz cemetery, in the capital Dili. Many others were injured......
Ted, Jack And The Herald What A Welcome Back
AS A RECEN I "unlapsed" Catholic, I have started buying the Herald to widen my knowledge of the Church as it is today. When I lapsed in the late 1960s, I remember well the......