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Chris BainMake Poverty History helped change minds at the highest levels of global government. Now a new campaign, Livesimply, challenges each one of us during this season of excess to make a difference by looking at our personal impact on poverty and the environment Free
From the editor’s desk
| When tone matters Free Serious issues are raised by the Government's proposals to forbid discrimination on the grounds of homosexuality, particularly as they are likely to impact on the work of church welfare agencies. The Catholic Church is not alone in finding a key ... | IRAQ needs clever diplomacy |
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Features
High-minded climb in the AndesColin HardingEcuador?s president-elect is super-confident and intellectually gifted, but after trailing in the first round he acquired a common touch that helped him win. While his scepticism about conventional politics may yet land him in trouble, his vision for the country has so far proved inspirational...
|  Did Turkey change the Pope?Robert MickensHe may have disappointed thousands of journalists eager for a Regensburg-style story but, for most, Benedict XVI?s first visit to a Muslim country was a bravura performance of conciliation. The question remains of whether this was a diplomatic triumph or a genuine turn-about... |
The road back to DamascusMichael HirstSince Syria was forced to pull its troops out of Lebanon last year, ending a 29-year occupation, the latter has seen a tentative democratic revival. A newly assertive Hezbollah is attempting to bring down the Government and re-establish control by its powerful neighbour...
| Ambivalent archbishop Free Catherine PepinsterRowan Williams? recent visit to Rome was to develop relationships and seek progress on ecumenical dialogue. Both were achieved,
as he tells Catherine Pepinster, but his own response to the Vatican seems a combination of pleasure and misgiving...
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Time to search your soulMartin JakubasIn preparing for the arrival of God incarnate, we need to understand why Christ came.
We cannot do this without recognising the reality of evil in the world and of sin in ourselves...
| From earth and from heavenDaniel McCarthyOn the Second Sunday in Advent, we ask for the wisdom of Christ, so that we may be reborn in baptism, and take on his divine nature as he became a human being like us...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley?How different was the lot of British seamen from that of the slaves they tried to liberate??  Laurence Freeman?In the South, even amid poverty and injustice, there is still vitality?
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Books and arts
Chameleon edging close to greatness Free
Articles of Faith: the collected Tablet journalism of Graham Greene
ed. Ian Thomson
The reputations of writers often dip following their deaths, but 15 years after Graham Greene's demise interest in his life and work shows no signs of diminishing. Biographies ... Chameleon edging close to greatness Free
Articles of Faith: the collected Tablet journalism of Graham Greene
ed. Ian Thomson
The reputations of writers often dip following their deaths, but 15 years after Graham Greene's demise interest in his life and work shows no signs of diminishing. Biographies ...
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Medics don't want assisted dying legalised
Dr Gillian Paterson, guest contributor
Both my parents died of cancer. Both had painkilling medication in the final stages: shortening ... Why do Catholic schools need to turn to Stonewall?
Elena Curti
There is astonishment and rage in some quarters that a Catholic primary school invited the ... Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann
So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ...
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