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Unlock the door

Gerald O’Collins

The president of Germany’s bishops’ conference called last month for the creation of a new specific office for female deacons. Here, a leading biblical scholar supports the idea and dismisses objections that it would inevitably lead to women priests Free 

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Art of getting away with it Free 
Evading tax is illegal; avoiding tax is what everybody is allowed to do in order to minimise the tax they pay. This is true of individuals as well as corporations, though in the latter case a great deal of intellectual creativity has gone into finding ... 		Establishment undermined
The Church of England’s position as “the Church by law established” has been weakened by the progress of the legislation to permit the marriage of same-sex couples. Not only is the law on marriage under review, but so is the nature ...

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Replace fear with boldness, cynicism with confidence
Lancaster bishop urges Church to ditch nostalgia and focus on mission
Mary, inspiration for students
US Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrates the secret of Notre Dame University
Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis

 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

Vatican II ‐ an unprecedented event, a council like no other
Cardinal Godfried Danneels speaks at Southwark Cathedral
Don't let anyone tell you the Council didn't change much
Robert Blair Kaiser gives the 2012 Tablet Lecture

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Peter StanfordPeter Stanford

‘GCSEs are all about jumping through hoops guided by your teachers’

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Christopher HowseChristopher Howse

‘There’s only one long-term alternative to Heaven, so the more saints the merrier’

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 Books and arts

Aristocracy who served democracy Free 
Perilous Question: the drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
Antonia Fraser
It is shocking, at the end of this book, to realise how little the Great Reform Act of 1832 actually changed. Rutland, with a population of 800, entirely dominated by two large aristocratic ...


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Medics don't want assisted dying legalised
Dr Gillian Paterson, guest contributor

Both my parents died of cancer. Both had painkilling medication in the final stages: shortening ...

Why do Catholic schools need to turn to Stonewall?
Elena Curti

There is astonishment and rage in some quarters that a Catholic primary school invited the ...

Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann

So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ...