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Led by a flickering star

Gerald O?Collins

The account in Matthew?s gospel of the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem is rich in contrasts, as exploited to spectacular effect in the recent film The Nativity Story. A theologian explores what these tell us about the human manifestation of the divine Free 

 From the editor’s desk


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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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

 Features

 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

?Freedom can easily strangle democracy ? the German people freely elected Hitler?

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Christopher Howse?s presswatchChristopher Howse?s presswatch

?Tabloids feel specially qualified to assign places in hell to dictators and child murderers?

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 Books and arts

Baffled by enigma of sanctity Free 
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 ...

       
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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