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| Marching orders for bigotry Free So far, the usual long, hot summer of sectarian tension associated with the marching season in Northern Ireland has passed without a single soldier on the streets. Gradually the old hatreds seem to be diminishing, for which some credit has to go to ... | The evangelical elephant |
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Features
 Search for truth and poetry Free Arthur RocheA new translation of the Order of Mass into English from the Latin text has been a lengthy and sometimes controversial process. The challenge for the International Committee on English in the Liturgy, the body charged with the task of translation, has been to provide a version that is solemn and profound, yet, as its chairman reports here, accessible as well... | Outing a secret shameJames McMillanIn 1999 Scotland?s leading composer compared his country to Northern Ireland ?without the guns?. Seven years on and with a skin considerably thickened by critical barbs, he says he is inspired by the reconciliation of the Catholic and Protestant sides of his own family to see an end to sectarianism...
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Show us the splendourThe Feast of the Transfiguration may have had martial origins, but in the opening prayer this week, the language of royal glory has been replaced by a hope that God will make us worthy to share in Christ?s eternal life. Daniel McCarthy examines the translation and explains its background...
| A catholic approach to lendingAnnie ShawFinancial institutions usually lend according to fairly strict criteria for ascertaining the creditworthiness of the borrower. But there is at least one building society that lends according to need, as well as ability to repay. And it is still in business after 40 years...
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 ForgottenNajla Chahda With many left behind by fleeing wealthy employers, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Ethiopians and others are now stuck in the war zones of Lebanon, their only route out being the dangerous road to Damascus... | The Church must mind its businessThomas J. HealeyWhile the commercial world can benefit from ethical advice, the Church can benefit from commerce, especially if it helps to make it more accountable, as a group of senior business advisers have pointed out in the US...
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Moral money-makingKatie GordonSome 6 per cent of all the world?s assets are held directly by faith organisations, with their congregations holding even more. Think of the consequences if ethical criteria lay behind all that investment...
| War without end Free Robert FoxTheorists of today?s conflicts may be mistaken to think in terms of a ?clash of civilisations?. Closer to the mark are the ideas of two writers who focus on the communal nature of modern warfare...
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From Chelsea to LindisfarneIn the first in our summer series on gardens and their connections with religious belief, Richard Abbott visits an award-winning garden that has been re-created on Holy Island...
|  It might be flexible, but is it a friend?Tim sharpCharity credit cards may assuage the guilt of our spending sprees, but may well not be the most effective way of donating to good causes... |
Usefulness of partnershipJohn MulliganA pastoral council not only helps the work of the priest but gives every member of the congregation a personal stake in the parish...
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Books and arts
Ironies at the heart of Islam Free
The Caged Virgin: a Muslim woman’s cry for reason
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Only Half of Me: being a Muslim in Britain
Rageh Omaar
Viking, £17.99
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Churches under-valued or over-estimating themselves?
Francis Davis, guest contributor
It is not long now until the Local Government Association annual conference. This premier ... Hume knew Alan Hopes would one day be bishop
Fr Mark Woodruff, guest contributor
When 12 Anglican priests in 1995 reached the end of nearly two years of transition and preparation ... Anglican patrimony is becoming a reality
James Roberts
As a convert from Anglicanism I have been curious since Benedict XVI paved the way for the ...
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