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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Some seem forgotten
We have all been aware of a series of disasters and tragic events in recent months. Indeed your coverage of the Edinburgh Gathering in the last issue shows that many people are very concerned and want to change the many injustices in our world.
However the recently published Abortion figures for 2004 have raised hardly a comment anywhere! Just think for a moment, 185,415 innocent babies put to death in England and Wales last year.
This Abortion Tsunami hits our shores every year and injures more and more each time. Yet there is no outcry, no concert in Hyde Park, no G8 meeting, no large scale rescue attempt, nor is there much support for those suffering the after- effects. What is happening in our society? What is happening in our Church? Don’t we care?
Esther Williams
Lupton
Cumbria

Taize Remembered
I have been visiting Taize now for twenty years. Many years ago, my son who was very young at the time, knelt next to Brother Roger at mid day prayer. When the prayer was over, I asked my son what Bother Roger was like. “Mommy,” he said, “ he was full of peace”. What perception from one so young! Recently I was at Taize again for prayer. Little did I think that I would return in just a few weeks time to pay my last respects to that man of peace. The church of the resurrection and Campus Taize were as always a witness to Christian belief in the resurrection. How sad though that this man of peace should end his days at the hand of an assassin!
Annie Colbert
Covenant Books
Ingol

Draft Racial Justice Charter
I was so pleased to see this article and feel obliged to respond. As a Little Sister of the Assumption, I am a representative for our Province on Justice and Peace issues. I have found this hard since moving here from Edinburgh, as we have no Justice & Peace group in the parish of St.Wilfrid’s. This article may help us to start one. My comments on the draft which appeared in the August Voice are as follows: We believe every human being is created in the image and likeness of God. Catholics have an obligation, with other Christians, to promote racial justice. We must all work for a better quality of life for all people. We commit ourselves to overcoming Racial Injustice.
Kay Rowley (Sr.)
Mount Street,
Preston

In praise of the Catechism
In answer to letters from Mr J Ahern and Mr F Logan, (August Voice), the Catechism is the very essence of our faith in as much as it gives us a firm foundation on which to build on, and a reason for doing so. Questions and answers contained in the Christian Doctrine gives us a clear insight on what Jesus meant when He said, “ I am the way the truth and the life, follow me”
If the Catechism is not taught in our schools and children in High School are not encouraged to read the Bible, where will they get the knowledge of the “Good News” which is contained in the Gospels.
Is this the reason why so many young people are not attending church? It is all very well to say “we don’t have to go to church to be a good Christian” but how can they be that when so many know so little about the Word of God. To promote interest in anything we have to know something about the subject in question.
M.I.Atherton
Fulwood