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Paul McPartlanChrist's death opened the way to a new heaven and a new earth. He liberated not just humanity but the whole of Creation, as his words on Palm Sunday indicate Free
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| The new British disease Free Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor used his erudite Corbishley Lecture this week to erect a breakwater against the incoming tide of aggressive secularism and atheism. His purpose was both to start a debate, he said, and to sound an alarm against the ... | Green and Orange Revolution |
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Features
 Beginning of the end Free Victor Fox Robert Mugabe, who has brought only desolation to Zimbabwe, looks more vulnerable now than for many years. One veteran observer of the country urges Europe and Africa to prepare together for life after his demise, while Britain must accept its share of the blame for his tyrannical rule... | Sacrifice and banquetDaniel McCarthyIn a seasonal return of his series on the opening prayer of the Mass, Daniel McCarthy explores the collect for Holy Thursday, which evokes the marriage supper of the Lamb, and Christ?s eternal sacrifice, offered so that we may draw the fullness of love and life from him, now and at the eternal banquet to which we are invited...
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 This time, it?s personalChris Ryder When Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sat down together this week they did more than kick-start devolved government back into life in Northern Ireland. They each staked their reputation on Catholics and Protestants, nationalists and Unionists, even at the extremes, working together... |  Judas the obscureThe Tablet Interview What attracted a leading theologian to become involved in a new work seeking to rehabilitate Judas Iscariot, and written by convicted perjurer Jeffrey Archer? Francis Moloney explains all to Elena Curti, who finds he?s a sound defender of the book ? and combative, too.... |
One between twoHelen MarquisIn many dioceses, parishes are responding to the shortage of priests by allowing one priest to serve two parishes, and reducing the number of Masses. But at the Easter Triduum, problems arise which must be dealt with thoughtfully and sensitively...
|  Bowled over by IrelandJohn Cooney The Emerald Isle caused one of this year?s biggest Cricket World Cup upsets when its team dismissed Pakistan. Some suspected a fix, but more observant fans would have known: this team was not as green as people assumed... |
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Books and arts
Conditions for war in a nuclear age Free
The Price of Peace: just war in the twenty-first century
Eds Charles Reed and David Ryall
Originating with St Augustine, codified by St Thomas Aquinas, refined and developed by philosophers, lawyers and theologians in succeeding centuries, the "just war tradition" ... |
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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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