28 SEPTEMBER 1951, page 15

Letters To The Editor

Disappearing Clergy- Slit.-1 will try to deal with the main points raised by your correspon- dents. (1) Mr. - K. C. Stuart is worried because I refer to the priesthood as a......

Is Puritanism Outmoded?

SIR,—The Third Programme broadcast on this subject by Miss C. V. Wedgwood was able and stimulating. There is no doubt that the , Puritan outlook on life, which was dominant with......

Sui,—as There Appears To Be Such Difficulty In Manning The

vacant charges in the Church, why does mother Church not turn to that great untapped source of supply, the women of the Church, and ordain them to the Ministry? The position of......

Toujours La Politique Sut—if The Spectator Had Set Itself To

demonstrate its provinciality it •' could hardly have done so more thoroughly than by uttering one scornful sentence: "The question of State-aid for denominational schools is......

To Maintain Cathedrals And Not Parishes. And, Though The...

purpose of both institutions i3 the same, the means employed are — radically different. Misinformed enthusiasm in the last century per- mitted the confiscation of a large......