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Restoring religion to the public square

Linda Woodhead

Results of a £12-million research project on the place of religious belief in public life will be aired in a series of groundbreaking debates as well as in The Tablet beginning next month. One of the main aims, argues the project’s head, is to help correct the secular bias at universities Free 

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In defence of conscience Free 

President Obama has made a serious mistake. He is demanding that Catholic hospitals must make contraceptives available to their staff as part of their health-care packages. The new rules are part of the health-service reforms, which are the greatest achievement ...

Be careful what you wish for

Self-determination has become a key principle of international affairs. So when the leader of the Scottish Nationalists insists on having a referendum on the break-up of the union with England established in 1707, it is taken for granted that the result ...

 Texts in full

Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'

Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ...

Silence and soundbites
Pope's World Communications Day message

As we draw near to World Communications Day 2012, I would like to share with you some reflections concerning an aspect of the human process of communication which, despite its importance, ...

 Features

 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘The only truth that really matters is the truth that is freely chosen’

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Christopher HowseChristopher Howse

‘When bishops hold out the hand of friendship to journalists they just get them bitten’

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 Books and arts

Full sweep of possibilities Free 
The Architecture of Theology: structure, system and ratio
A.N. Williams
In The Ground of Union (1999),  Anna Williams argued that the supposedly most intractable conflict between Eastern and Western Christianity might be resolved by reconsidering our ...

       
The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor

"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...

Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb

When do the bad actions of a few completely overshadow the good of the past?
This question ...

A non-Catholic's view: 'I wish my school had stayed more Catholic'
Shona Bailey, guest contributor

Bishop Michael Campbell of Lancaster asked in his new year letter whether a dwindling ...


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