| Judicial killing demeans all Free The strongest argument for the death penalty was the simple invocation of the name of Hitler ? or in more recent days, Saddam Hussein. The strongest argument for the death penalty was the simple invocation of the name of Hitler - or in more recent days, Saddam Hussein. What fate but death could possibly be appropriate for the world's most wicked men? But the appalling images and ... | What migrants do for us |
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A life too burdensome Free John ParisLast month the Italian poet and muscular dystrophy sufferer Piergiorgio Welby was granted his wish when a doctor turned off the ventilator that had been keeping him alive. The Church refused Welby a Catholic funeral. But did this refusal accord with the Church?s teaching on when a person can be allowed to die?...
| Troubleshooter of the NorthThe Tablet InterviewRobin Eames is stepping down after 20 years as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. His years on the political front line, encouraging communication between Protestants and Catholics, have borne fruit. But, as he tells Chris Ryder, his successor still faces difficult challenges...
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Our guided journeyThe Magi travelled by the light of faith towards the adoration of the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The prayer for the Epiphany Mass, as Daniel McCarthy shows, expresses the way the path of our own life, illuminated by divine light, approaches the contemplation of the beauty of God...
| Jewels snatched from the liturgical crownMike KnowlesFor the first time this year, the Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated in England and Wales not on the old established date of 6 January but on the nearest Sunday. It is a decision that some see as the symptom of a Church lacking in confidence...
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The true Nun?s StoryZoe FairbairnsHer starring role in The Nun?s Story was one of Audrey Hepburn?s most remarkable performances. Behind that film and the novel on which it was based was a moving true story of vocation, faith and friendship, as a new play reveals...
| Why I emigrated to HaifaIrene LancasterDriven out of Britain by her perception of increasing anti-Semitism, one of the United Kingdom?s leading Jewish academics has paradoxically found peace in the Israeli city that suffered most from last year?s conflict in Lebanon...
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The future needs resolveIt is necessary to think, talk, organise and plan if the community is to be helped towards a properly Christian sense of itself and towards a more fully Christian way of behaving...
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Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?
Gëzim Alpion
As an admirer and biographer of Mother Teresa, I count myself among those writers whose "subjectivist" approach to their subject Gëzim Alpion seeks to redress by his ... |
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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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