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Christmas From Gentleman's Relish To Alka Seltzer...
Page 10 from 12th December 1980HOW DO YOU face Christmas — with the joyful confidence of a Napoleon before -Thattle certain that the Austrian army will bog it again — with the......
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......
Mission Of The Johnny-come-latelies
Page 10 from 7th March 1980I wrote the other day that this is St Benedict's year. He has rivals. St Benedict's anniversary is 1500 years old. Those St Johnny-comelatches, the......
Remember The Fifth Of November With Fewer Whizz-bangs Please
Page 10 from 14th November 1980NO SINCERE reader of Charterhouse could have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day. There are several reasons why this should not have been done. Fireworks are......
Archbishop Capucci An Agent Of God
Page 4 from 1st August 1980THE accusation by Urbanus, July 18, against Archbishop Capucci using his office as Apostolic Visitor to Melkites as a cover for an alleged PLO......
Desmond O'grady Examines The Pope's First Two Years And...
Page 5 from 10th October 1980JOHN PAUL Mk. ti ter two years of Pope ohn Paul's pontificate, three phases can be distinguished. 1 he first was that of curiosity in the Pope......
Inside Iran When The Shooting Started
Page 6 from 13th March 1981Inside Iran by Paul Hunt (Lion Publishing, £1.50) The Hard Awakening by Bishop H. B. Dehqani-Tafti (Triangle SPCK, £1.50) IT WAS Christmas 1979 in......
Pope John 1'au1, Ii Has Chosen Freedom As The Theme
Page 2 from 19th September 1980fur the Fourteenth World Day of Peace on January I. The Vatican invites all people of goodwill to "please freedom at the service of peace, reflect......
Sitting It Out The Catholic Hostages In Iran Embassy
Page 2 from 11th January 1980Colonel Leland Holland has been stationed at the embassy since August 1978. A seminary dropout, he has a reputation for laughing off danger and has......
Call My Bluff Up The Kyber
Page 6 from 16th January 1987Kabul Catastrophe • by Patrick Macrory (Oxford University Press, £6.95). SIR Patrick Macrory's account of the disastrous retreat of the British......