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Moral Duty To Hong Kong
THE old cliche about journalists writing the first draft of history has certainly rung true this week with events in Peking. We are witnessing at first hand a people's......
A Forgotten Church
SINCE the end of the cultural revolution and the discrediting of its excessive xenophobia and introspection in the mid 1970s, the west has slowly but surely extended a warm......
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There Are Some Issues On Which We Simply Have To
agree to differ. That in no way implies that these issues are inconsequential. Indeed, in matters of little import compromise can often be sought and found. The virtue of......
Opus Dei's Truth
FR Medcalf (June 2) can be forgiven for being no expert on Opus Dei this does not seem to be his subject. But as a reviewer of Mr Walsh's caricature of Opus Dei your readers......
Physical And Spiritual Care For Coeliacs
I TRUST you will correct your report (May 19) that we found that the "gluten ingested when receiving communion results in intestinal damage to those who suffer from coeliac......
Teaching As Vocation
I FAIL to understand why Bishop David Konstant should be critical of the Governments drive for increased efficiency in schools and their attempts to link pay scales to......
Cardinal And The Vaughan
WE feel that it is necessary that we should write to express our wholehearted support for Cardinal Hume, in the discharge of his duty as bishop and trustee of Catholic schools......
Shooting Down Avia R Aiiop
IN his review (May 26) of my book, A Thief in the Night The Death of John Paul 1, Gerard Noel is disappointed that I fail to go "beyond" David Yallop's In God's Name. What can......
Cardinal Error On Schools?
THE first real challenge to the government's 1988 Education Reform Act has been mounted by Cardinal Hume. As has so often been true during the Thatcher years, it has been the......
No Whitewash On War Crimes
THE recent scandal concerning the discovery of a war criminal, Paul Touvier, found being sheltered in a monastery run by the followers of the excommunicated Lefebvre will damage......