This week, I have become a columnist for the Catholic Herald. It is a short piece under the Leader called "Catholic Dilemmas." (People ask questions and I try to answer them.) The first one is about relics and what to do with them.
The Editor, Luke Coppen has given me a very kind notice in the Editor's Blog.
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A "sparkling blog" eh?
I wonder which one he's been reading?
At least the Catholic Herald appears to actually be CATHOLIC...our newspaper has gone "Social Justice Sprit of Vatican II" happy...anything faithful is treated with literary embarassment.
www.thecatholicspirit.com
Please pray for us.
I do have a question on relics that I can't answer for an RCIA candidate...it has to do with the treatment of remains, and how spreading the remains of a Saint, in the form of "relics" is "dignified", etc.
Are you going to discuss that in your column? If not, I'm wondering if you can do a post on first class relics, but I'd like to post the question which was posed to me more specifically.
God bless!
I do hope that issues a little more pertinent will be brought up in this column. I find it very telling that while the biggest crisis in 100 years is going on between the CHurch and the state, the Catholic Herald, England's "conservative" Catholic paper is talking about relics in its "Catholic dilemmas" column.
As I'm sure has been pointed out before, we got in the current mess by doing that English thing of trying desperately to get along, play nice, attend the tea parties and NOT TALK ABOUT the problem.
YAY! Congratulations... just as I took out a subscription, as well.
Would you be sharing you column here with us Father?
Or are you legally prohibited from doing so.
Father, It's probably the case you can't share. I have started doing some research/article collation work for a Catholic periodical, and I'm not allowed to share what I write. But do check! ;-)
Hilary - that's not entirely fair. The did give front page coverage to the issue this week. My column is a small item tucked under the leader.
Andrew - I have presumed that I should not post the column here. But I will check with the Editor.
Congratulations Father, I can't think of a better person for the job.
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