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Anthea RowanPaul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, recently returned from a tour of East Africa to reject the view that a country? s traditional culture is a barrier to economic progress. An innovative horticultural project in northern Tanzania supports his point: sustainable economic health in Africa depends on working with local customs and practices Free
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| The Vatican view of women Free Pope Benedict was leaving himself open to challenge when he remarked in an interview that women "are very present in the departments of the Holy See". It was a tacit invitation to delve into the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican's Year ... | A blessing for Britain |
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Features
A time to show the way Free Cormac Murphy-O?ConnorContrary to reports of empty churches and a society that appears to be losing its faith, the current revival of an interest in religion has never been greater as people listen afresh...
| And is it true?Kevin J. GardnerA hundred years ago this week John Betjeman, one of the most beloved of English poets, was born. While there have been plenty of celebrations of Betjeman as poet and preservationist, less widely studied is the role of faith in his contribution to English national life, a faith often plagued by doubt...
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Solving the nuclear conundrum?s a long haulMichael QuinlanIn recent months Tablet contributors have debated whether it is right for the United Kingdom to renew its nuclear weapons capability, following the Scottish bishops? opposition. Here, a leading defence expert examines the arguments put forward so far. No approach, he says, comes risk-free...
| Cultivating spiritualityTo walk round the Reflection Gardens in Staffordshire, with their symbolic plants and significant sculptures, is as much to take a spiritual journey as to visit a space where plants grow. Richard Abbott takes a tour of a place where inspiration flowers...
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Just don?t mention abstinencePeter KavanaghIn Bangkok two years ago, Catholic thinking on Aids prevention came under persistent attack from activists. In Toronto this month, a similar mood prevailed, although it was possible to detect a deeper realism among some delegates?...
| Hearts and minds freely wonDaniel McCarthy looks at the opening prayer for the twenty-first Sunday in ordinary time, where the joys and sorrows of our changing world are contrasted with the one
true joy available to us when we learn to desire what God has already promised
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Columnists
Tim Hames?The Protestant work ethic has become contagious. A Catholic ethic might be better? Nicholas Pyke?Examinations officers and ministers claim that the A-level grades are scientific?
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Books and arts
Lament for a vanished world Free Seminary Boy John Cornwell
Readers of a nervous disposition approaching an account of life in a junior seminary in the 1950s by the author of Hitler's Pope may fear that they are in for a searing tale ... |
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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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