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Prior Park Remains Top Of The Class
WITH REFERENCE to Mr Linden, Dec 19. he rather answers one of the queries himself. Brother Millers 'Day boy imake of 50-60 throughout the school at Prior Park College. would......
With Reference To The Article On Public Schools. Dec 26,
at no point did the author, provide an answer to the crucial question of why, independent and increasingly expensive schools, available to a mere 1-2 p.c. of children, can exist......
The Church, Not Laity As Leader
"WHAT IS MANr the psalmist asked, and we are still asking the same question and many relevant ones like. "What is marriage?" A marriage encapsulates so much of the question and......
Don't Stand For It
POOR EAMONN I heartily sympathise with his lamentations over Mass. I have suffered from the same thing but i am afraid I cannot worry about the fellow behind me. I refuse to be......
Of Course
Credo. no one does Finally, everyone repeats aloud the "Final Doxoloy" although the Holy Father has twice publicly stated that this should be said solely by the priest.......
Grow' In Grace Now
WHAT a unique opportunity to give those who want their children to grow up as Christians, or at least to learn what it means to be a Christian! Close Catholic schools — NO! Open......
Remember Ukraine
WE UKRAINIANS, celebrate Christmas on January 6 and 7 because our religious calendar is different from the Western one. In the West, we are free to attend the beautiful......
Nothing Sinister
EAMONN ANDREWS' reference to "the sinister, black shirted, jew baiting Oswald Mosley," Dec 12. teas highly offensive to his family and friends, particularly to those of us who......
Guiding Star
UNDER the heading "Harmful horoscope," Nov 21, I read with interest Mrs Sewell's letter on the influence of the stars on our lives or rather what she claims as the absence of......
Blessings On You Beeb
WHAT A heart-warming Mass BBC brought us from Clifton Cathedral on Christmas Day — sixty minutes of joyful celebration. Bishop, choir, priests and people participated as one......
Peace On Earth Multilaterally
CLARE HOU RI MANE does not find support for her extreme views on unilateral nuclear disarmament in Vatican II — therefore Vatican II is outmoded; with disarming logic. the......
I Thank Brian Wicker, Chairman Of Fax Christi, For His
letter (Dec 12) replying to mine (Nov 28) about the upsurge of opinion in favour of unilateral disarmament. My purpose had been (may I recall) to urge the case on the contrary......
Say 'no' To Calendars
MANY firms are sending out calendars to their customers, featuring pictures of nude or scantily dressed girls. It comes as a shock to find such calendars displayed by Catholics......
Speaking In Tongues
AMONG the many gifts of' the Blessed Virgin, hardly any comment has been made on her aptitude as a linguist. At Walsingham she would have spoken to the lady Richeldis in......
Of Male And Female Men And All That
MR GARMAN, 'Anti-sexist nonsense' Dec 19, is himself showing woeful ignorance of the English language. Linguists recognise that what is taught in schools often bears no relation......
Reference "anti-sexist Nonsense" Letter Dec 19, In...
that God made man, male and female created he them. Man (from the Sanskrit manu meaning hand) was a generic term. until female men were effectively rendered non-men in any but a......
Liturgy Is Meant To Communicate And Words That Give False
impressions are best avoided. !Mr Garman fails to appreciate that the reason for objecting to the use of 'man' to mean everyone is that it is misleading. Considerable research......
Mr Garman. Dec 19, Was, Of Course, Absolutely Right In
stating that the nouns "men" and "mankind" are generic forms for the human race. However. as the noun "man" is also used when the male only is concerned ambiguities can result.......
Stick To A Varied Catholic Education
MY JOB as a representative for educational equipment involves calling on secondary schools. In the first case I had to wait for some time in a school entrance hall. It was......
Does Corporal Punishment Produce Good Discipline'? Those...
slaves of the system. resorted to the former then gave it up, invariably find that the latter improves. A vast new field of control has opened up before them — a positive field......
I Am Not Interested In Producing "tough Guys", Like...
Baden Powell or anyone else; but the New Testament makes it quite clear that all Christians may expect martyrdom. that is to die in agony under torture. My point was that, if......