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Tina BeattieAs Aquinas baptised Aristotle, so liberation theologians sought to baptise Marx. While the result was planted among the Church?s grassroots, in today?s climate of human rights a new theology is springing up to express God?s ?preferential love for the poor? Free
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| A welcome modest concession Free The key subtext to the recent row over the right of Catholic adoption agencies to discriminate against homosexuals was the widespread public perception that the Catholic Church is a homophobic institution - a position reinforced by gay lobby groups, ... | Damage done to democracy |
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Features
Sex and the secular liberal Free Conor GeartyMisunderstanding the depth of post-socialist commitment to equality and diversity, especially that of sexual orientation, was a serious mistake in the Church?s handling of the gay adoption issue, according to a leading Catholic human-rights lawyer...
|  New Labour, old prejudicePaul Donovan Catholic MPs and ordinary members of the party believe that powerful elements within Labour are becoming hostile to the Church. Such a bias could have serious consequences for the party?s electoral fortunes ? and for Gordon Brown?s desire to do business with the Churches... |
Flying a kite for freedomRobert FoxUnlike Iraq, the international effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan is, in the words of the outgoing British NATO commander, ?winnable?. Many Afghans seem to agree as long as they can draw up the template and do not have it imposed from Washington or London...
| Self-transcending giftDaniel McCarthyDaniel McCarthy sheds light on the opening prayer for the sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in which the mutual exchange between God and man is implicit on our asking for God?s gift of grace, and offering our cooperation by conducting upright and sincere lives...
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Back to the BibleAdrian B. SmithMany Catholics? familiarity with Scripture leaves a good deal to be desired. But there
is no reason why this should remain the case, for the Liturgy of the Word offers many opportunities for deepening the spirituality of the congregation...
| The Moors? latest sighFernando CervantesWhen Spain?s Muslims asked to be allowed to pray at the cathedral in Cordoba, the request seemed reasonable, given the building?s history.
So what exactly was behind the Spanish bishops? refusal to agree?...
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Ways to live the good lifeCatherine CowleyReligion, and especially Christianity, has been seen as part of the problem rather than the solution to tackling climate change. But that is to misrepresent the gift and task of ?dominion? over the earth...
| Winning habitsDominic Prince?It?s in the blood,? says Sr Rita of the Sisters of Charity about her passion for racing. But the real winner, says Dominic Prince, is the hospice to which she is Devoted...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames?The Fifth Republic has a facade of institutional iron that does not fit with the rusty facts?  Michael McCarthy?The Church needs to recognise explicitly that climate change is a moral issue?
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Books and arts
Pope who has baffled his critics Free
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his battle with the modern world
David Gibson
After the announcement of Joseph Ratzinger's election to the papacy, as David Gibson relates in his new book, the then public affairs adviser to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, ... |
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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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