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| What is needed after the war Free To adapt Winston Churchill's famous phrase, jaw-jaw has replaced war-war in the Middle East, at least for the time being, and that has to be a change for the better. Israel now has to digest the rough handling its army received from Hezbollah, ... | Treasure Distinctiveness |
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Features
 True face of martyrdom Free Brian WickerDying for one?s faith, previously associated with acts of courage, is now tainted in the public mind by the claims of suicide bombers to be martyrs for Islam. How did such perverted thinking emerge, and can martyrdom be reclaimed as an honourable act?... | Dilemma of gay adoption Free Terry PhilpotFive American states now forbid discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, leading to the closure of a Catholic adoption agency after its board?s decision that they could not square samesex
parenting with the teaching of Rome. Is there a way forward?...
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 Pope Benedict XVIs interview Free Pope Benedict XVIs interview with Bayerische Rundfunk (ARD), ZDF, Deutsche Welle and Vatican Radio.
... | From him all good things comeDaniel McCarthyThe opening prayer for the twentieth Sunday in ordinary time expresses our desire to love God above all things and to be transformed by him, but acknowledges that our desire is exceeded by
his abundance. Daniel McCarthy reveals the meanings behind the deceptively simple translation...
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Journey's endMichael Symmons RobertsFor tens of thousands trapped at airport check-in queues, days of carefree travel seem truly over. But if that?s true for literal journeys, it?s even more so for metaphorical ones, according to a leading philosopher. So what is life if it?s a long and winding road no more?...
| The power of positive thinkingNext month the Pope returns to his native Bavaria. To mark the visit, Benedict XVI
was interviewed by four German broadcast journalists. This is an edited version of their conversation, in which he stressed that Catholicism is not about prohibition...
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 Church Down Under comes up for airMark BrollyWhen Cardinal Murphy-O?Connor arrives in Australia next week, he will find a country much changed from the days when warnings
against ?Godless Moscow? and ?papist Rome?were commonplace... | Blessed are the reconcilersDaniel O'LearyThe many divisions, global and local, in the world today require a particular type of peacemaker, someone who is able to absorb the
negative and hostile and transform it through love...
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Caring for God's acreRichard AbbottIn the secret lanes of Shropshire, Richard Abbott uncovers the glories of country churchyards and a plan to save these sanctuaries of native blooms and grasses...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley'The parallel between cults and jihadists is most striking in the recruiting techniques'  Ann Wroe'Teetering on a ladder, he chopped down too rows of angels from the hammer-beam roof'
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Books and arts
Cabin boy who became a bishop Free
William Bernard Ullathorne 1806-1889: a different kind of monk
Judith Champ
Ullathorne of Birmingham, partly because of the anecdotes that are associated with his life and death, is one of the few Victorian Catholic bishops whose name is remembered ... |
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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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