Letters

Catholic dolls

Anne Cramer

Contents - Feb 2007 - Buy a copy now Editorial: The Church and globalisation - Peter Westmore Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World East Timor: priests threatened with execution - Peter Westmore Fr John Speekman: Vatican orders reinstatement of wrongly removed Sale Diocese parish priest - Michael Gilchrist Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church - Fr John Trigilio The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first - Wanda Skowronska Salesians help rebuild post-tsunami Sri Lanka - Br Michael Lynch Why we need holy days of obligation - Joanna Bogle Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir - Fr Finbarr Flanagan Letters: Shared guilt - Errol Duke Letters: Lost! - Moya and Leo Morrissey Letters: Truth and love - Chris Hilder Letters: Root Cause - Marie Kennedy Letters: Safe-sex? - Jack Blair Poetry: Gender-Bender Autos - Bruce Dawe Letters: Limbo? - Lawrence R. Hurley Letters: Manipulating language - Carol V. Phillips Letters: Obedience - Matthew Buckley Letters: Latin Mass - John Gariano Letters: Religious materials - J.W. Smith Letters: Catholic dolls - Anne Cramer Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church - Sr Mariana Handley (reviewer) Books: SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: Who Is It For and What Are Its Benefits? - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: B.A. Santamaria's correspondence published by MUP Books: New Titles from AD Books Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy - Fr Pat Stratford

I would like to inform the AD2000 readers that I sell cuddly, plush Catholic saint dolls called Faithdolls. You can see them at www.faithdolls.com. I am the only supplier in Australia and all the profits support the Carmelite Sisters at Goonellabah.

In a world of Bratz dolls and the like (dolls with bad attitude) these lovely saints dolls provide our children with the saintly alternative.

We have six at present: Mother Teresa, Saint Th rèse, Pope John Paul II, The Child Jesus, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Mary, Our Lady of Grace. Early in 2007 we will also be receiving seven new additions: St Joseph, St Michael, St Jude, St Francis of Assisi, St Bernadette, St Maria Goretti and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.

The dolls sell for $20 each plus postage and would make ideal gifts My email address is: amandpm@ bigpond.com, tel (07) 3883 2126.

ANNE CRAMER
Kippa-Ring, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 20 No 1 (February 2007), p. 16