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Denis MinnsWe need to remember, as we celebrate Whitsun tomorrow, that progress in the Spirit is by fits and starts. The gift of the Holy Spirit is something we need to get used to, and the Holy Spirit needs to get used to us Free
From the editor’s desk
| Prolonging the agony Free The very limited progress made by the American troop surge in Iraq means President Bush is fast running out of options. Under pressure in Congress and from public opinion to withdraw, he instead sent in reinforcements, following advice from his army ... | The private faith of Mr Blair |
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Features
 Freud?s troubled children Free Terry Philpot First it was parents, then social workers and teachers. Now it is clergy who have had accusations of child sexual abuse made against them, based solely on ?recovered? memories. But with psychologists still divided as to whether these recollections are genuine or not, how can a court investigating truth trust these shadows of the past?... | Brazil?s abortive societyMargaret HebblethwaiteIn the first in a series focusing on the world?s largest Catholic country, we look at a situation in which 1 in 25 women has had an abortion, despite it being illegal, and around 600 women a year die in consequence. Those working alongside the poor say that if the Church is to help reduce these shocking statistics, it must change and turn its attention to care, facilities and, above all, education...
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 Bank manager to the worldKevin Rafferty With the imminent departure of the current World Bank boss, there is a golden chance to reinvigorate the institution as champion of those bypassed by globalisation. But can the American President, in whose gift is the choice of the new leader of the bank, take the necessary step?... | Under pressureJohn CornwellGovernment plans to sanction the creation of human-animal embryos for research has much to do with the special interests of medical science, argues the head of Cambridge?s Science and Human Dimension Project. Despite the possibility of future beneficial therapies, public unease remains...
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Breath of GodMartin JakubasThe season leading up to Pentecost Sunday can seem the most
neglected of the year. One reason might be exhaustion after Easter; another might be fear of charismatic worship. But the Church needs
the gifts of the Spirit, and the feast needs to be revitalised...
| Ready to rock the boatChris RyderThe new Primate of All Ireland was regarded as a ?safe pair of hands? to take over from the charismatic Robin Eames. But, says Chris Ryder, there are already indications in Alan Harper of a radicalism well attuned to the new Ireland that is rapidly emerging...
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Lines from the marginsTony GlynnIn her heyday in the 1940s the Catholic novelist Elizabeth Myers, who died 60 years ago this week, was well regarded and popular, her tales of working-class life providing much-needed inspiration to a world beleaguered by war...
| Literature as ScriptureTimothy RadcliffeThis year?s Michael Ramsey Prize-winner for theological writing argues that literary writing from all the world?s diverse cultures carries us on a deepening journey towards understanding what it is to be part of Christ...
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Books and arts
Christ in faith and history Free
Jesus of Nazareth: from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI writes Jesus of Nazareth not as Pope ("it goes without saying that this book is in no way an exercise of the Magisterium") but as one theologian among others ... |
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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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