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Latest issue: 18 May 2013
Last updated: 23 May 2013

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Feel the Spirit

Kristina Cooper

The number of Catholics drawn to Charismatic Renewal is being given a huge boost by thousands of migrants. They are now taking their worship into parishes Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Abuse inquiry urgently needed Free 
From the court appearances of accused TV stars to historic scandals involving priests, music teachers and care workers, to the killing of young girls, Britain’s news pages, websites and TV bulletins are awash with cases of the sexual abuse ...
Austerity isn’t working
Unemployment in Britain rose by 15,000 in three months to the end of March, equalling 7.8 per cent of the workforce. This is worrying, but it is salutary to compare Britain with Spain, where unemployment has now reached six million or 27 ...
Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
Hospitals must ensure the LCP is not misapplied
Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Same-sex marriage bill must not discriminate against the Church
Archbishop Vincent Nichols calls for amendments to the legislation ahead of next week's debate

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

 Features

 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘Professor Stephen Hawking is wrong, as is the academic boycott of Israel’

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Robert Mickens

Letter from Rome

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 Books and arts

Bewitched and bamboozled Free 
C.S. Lewis: a life
Alister McGrath
Like C.S. Lewis, Alister McGrath is an Ulsterman and an academic who is also a popular apologist for Christianity of a tempered Anglican character and finely muted intelligence ...

       
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 ...