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A Ch Istmas Present
Page 8 from 3rd December 1954Ite i tliy NAOMI JAC011 A COLD winter, for even in Italy the winters can be very cold. The roads were hard, and in the ruts of the country lanes......
Despite All Distractions, Christmas Is Still A Very...
Page 10 from 24th December 1976DISTINGUISHED clerics have already given Christmas messages to readers of the Catholic Herald. It would be odd if I tried to do the same. But......
Rdouglas Hyde's
Page 4 from 17th January 1958COLUMN § Back in Ireland D URING a brief trip to Ireland last week I was once more reminded of the extraordinary response of the Irish people to......
Where Christmas Is Feared
Page 6 from 1st December 1967by ANN KIMMEL THERE will be no tur key at Christmas for Mrs. C and her five children. Since she and her husband came to London from the West......
All Hymns Trite And Beautiful
Page 9 from 7th January 2000Celebrities have depressingly predictable tastes, finds Brian Brindley My Favourite Hymn, compiled by Graham Ferguson Lacey, Robson Books £18.95......
Pope Benedict Heads For The Yankee Stadium
Page 16 from 18th January 2008By Anna Arco 4 j ohn Paul II, we love you," chanted' a crowd of teenagers standing to my left in a sodden Central Park in October 1995. The chant......
Sing, Choirs Of Angels
Page 11 from 4th March 2005A film called Les Choristes is fast achieving cult status. Set in a reform school in rural France in 1949, it tells how a gifted music teacher......
Bethlehem Bells Are Ringing Across The World
Page 10 from 22nd December 1939BY MAY BALDWIN C HRISTMAS Eve! and Bethlehem bells are ringing. From dawn till dusk that five-mileslong, white ribboned road that winds south......
A Requiem For The Soul Of English Cricket
Page 16 from 19th January 2007By Peter Mullen W ell, I've started the New Year in the knowledge that I discovered one thing last year, if I did nothing else. It was something I......
Saints Be Praised, But An Odd Band Of Heroic Divines
Page 10 from 4th January 1980VviTH IN the Anglican Church the mechanism of canonisation does not exist, nor, I think, is it greatly desired. True, there are.good Anglicans who......