| Lebanon must survive Free The Middle East stands on the brink of catastrophe. The escalation of violence that has left hundreds dead in Lebanon and dozens dead in Israel has appalled the world. Judgement, however, is more difficult ...
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Features
 Disproportionately deadly Free Michael ByersFriends of Israel should be among the first to put pressure on the country?s Government to reel back its military machine before its excessive response to the kidnapping of its soldiers mutates into a wider regional catastrophe... | Parents? choice: to know or not to knowRachel Perry and Victoria CombeTwo sisters ? both Catholics ? had different views about antenatal tests for disabilities during their pregnancies. One had a succession of tests and discovered that her child would have Down?s syndrome. The other, whose baby is due in October, has rejected the offer of tests. Below Rachel Perry explains why she needed to know and, opposite, Victoria Combe gives her view...
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 Ethics for a troubled worldLinda Hogan and James KeenanCatholic moral theologians from 63 countries gathered in Padua, Italy, last week. The first International Crosscultural Conference for Theological Ethicists provided a unique opportunity to share views and experiences, as outlined by two of the organisers... | Caught in their own trapConor GeartyThe arrest of Lord Levy in the ?loans for peerages? inquiry could not have happened without the gradual erosion of habeas corpus. The irony is that it is Labour?s own reforms that caused such an early arrest, and that may yet compromise the Prime Minister...
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 New era, old dilemmaDavid GoodallNuclear deterrence is once more being debated ahead of the decision to renew the Trident weapons system. Here, a former senior British diplomat argues why, despite changed circumstances, the UK should retain its atomic option... | Gifts of the Lord?s favourDaniel McCarthyIn the collect for the sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time we ask that we, fervent in faith, hope and love, may persevere in obeying God?s commands. Daniel McCarthy examines the nuances of the original Latin and how it is rendered in translation...
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Back to the ashes of warJulie FlintAfter 15 years of rebuilding following the decades of demolition of the Seventies and Eighties, Lebanon had risen up like a Levantine phoenix. Now, as The Tablet?s correspondent in Beirut reports, all that has disappeared in one short week...
| Lesson in partnershipMaggie MallonGlasgow schoolchildren are most aware of the sectarian divide when Celtic play Rangers, but a new project that twins Catholic and non-denominational schools shows pupils just how much they have in common...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley?It is hard not to see Hezbollah as the instrument for wiping Israel off the map?  Richard Rodriguez?With all that life restores, a separate calendar remembers the shadows?
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Books and arts
Knights tales: beoynd the bluster Free
God’s War: a new history of the Crusades
Christopher Tyerman
I wish publishers would calm down and provide us with more helpful guides to the books they market. The publicity material for God's War describes Crusaders as "warriors, ... |
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Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb
According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ... Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti
There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ... 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 ...
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