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Keith WardPope Benedict and his former doctoral students meet this weekend to discuss creation and evolution. Despite their apparent differences, the idea of the evolution of human life and its intelligent design by God are not in conflict, says one leading philosopher of religion. Free
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| An organisation that we need Free Even the United States realises it needs the United Nations. The idea popular among neo-conservatives in Washington that the UN was useful only in so far as it did America's will has given way to a wiser understanding, whispered in President Bush's ... | The new-style papacy |
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Features
?Britain allows me to be who I am? Free Theo HobsonIbrahim Mogra is the acceptable face of British Islam ? a mainstream Muslim
who rejects the perverted beliefs of terrorists. Yet while he accepts that secular pluralism
is a good thing, offering him freedom, his discomfort over the freedoms it renders
others highlights how complex a relationship Islam has with this country...
|  Home and awayAndrew McDonaldAccording to an opinion poll, around 10 million Britons who are disillusioned with the British political system want to move abroad. But how does living in a foreign country affect our view of our own? One Tablet contributor, who moved to California with his family, explains that being an emigrant encourages not only nostalgia, but also connections, to both the old home and the new... |
Nourish good things in usIn the opening prayer for the twenty-second Sunday in ordinary time, we ask God to nurture in us the seed of love of his name, and in doing so increase our reverence for him. Daniel McCarthy examines the complexities of the original Latin and casts light on their English translation...
| We have failed planet EarthRichard ChartresA report from aid agencies this week has highlighted dangers to the environment caused by our exploitation of it. Here the Bishop of London reflects on how today?s ecological challenge provides a reason for re-engaging
with a richer understanding of sin and salvation...
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 A life for a lifeJohn CornwellA so-called medical breakthrough in stem-cell research, by a profit-making company, invites controversy. Any progress in curing disease is to be welcomed, but such developments can never be justified where they put a life at risk... | In an English cloister gardenRichard AbbottAs Edward Pugin?s Monastery of St Francis in Gorton, Manchester, undergoes restoration, Richard Abbott explores this beautiful building, a masterpiece of imperfect symmetry meticulously planned to the glory of God...
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Glasgow?s crossTom ShieldsWhen Celtic?s Polish goalkeeper made the sign of the cross during an ?Old Firm? game last season, Rangers fans complained and the police took up the case. Is sectarianism still thriving in Scotland?s second city?...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley?The multicultural model became part of the dogmatism of political correctness?  Libby Purves?A convent childhood leaves me strangely devoted to the gesture on daily occasions?
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Books and arts
A restless heart keeps its secrets Free
Donne: the reformed soul
John Stubbs
The reputation of John Donne (1572-1631) as poet is as high now as ever. There is none above his summit in the genre he chose. Yet, on the publication of his Poems two years ... |
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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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