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Latest issue: 30 June 2007
Last updated: 18 May 2013

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Chaldean's last stand

Anthony O'Mahony

Many of Iraq?s once thriving Christians have fled violent persecution by Muslim extremists. Some of those remaining see a Christian enclave as their only hope. Others resist being ?locked in a ghetto?. But will either be enough to save one of the world?s oldest Christian communities? Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Fitting exit for Mr Blair Free 

So Tony Blair was not led from 10 Downing Street in handcuffs as his enemies had dreamed: he departed the political stage on the crest of a wave of goodwill such as few prime ministers have experienced before him. The House of Commons stood, clapped ...

Newman the role model

Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
Hospitals must ensure the LCP is not misapplied
Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Same-sex marriage bill must not discriminate against the Church
Archbishop Vincent Nichols calls for amendments to the legislation ahead of next week's debate
Patients aren't objects on which interventions are made
Westminster Archbishop Vincent Nichols defends chaplaincies as integral to healthcare
Asylum seekers, migrant workers and 'those who do not welcome foreigners' prayed for at migrants' Mass
Prayers of Intercession for Migrants Mass on May 6th 2013 at Westminster Cathedral

Vatican II ‐ an unprecedented event, a council like no other
Cardinal Godfried Danneels speaks at Southwark Cathedral
Don't let anyone tell you the Council didn't change much
Robert Blair Kaiser gives the 2012 Tablet Lecture
We fail future generations if we allow Vatican II to fade
Chris McDonnell speaks at meeting of Catholics concerned at direction of post-Conciliar Church
Call for authority of papacy to be limited
International circle of Catholic scholars issue petition for curial reform

 Features

 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

'Brilliant at details, many have chimed, but can Gordon really do the big-picture stuff'

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Margaret HebblethwaiteMargaret Hebblethwaite

'She previously lived in a tiny house where 10 people squeezed in a couple of rooms'

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 Books and arts

Prophecy as American Policy Free 
Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world
Nicholas Guyatt
Nicholas Guyatt has bravely set out on an important mission to explore what most Europeans and liberal Americans view as a "playpen for lunatics": the world of millions ...

       
Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann

So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ...

Does Cardinal O’Brien deserve banishment or pardon? He at least owes us an explanation
Elena Curti, Deputy Editor

The return of Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien to Scotland has for many Catholics rubbed salt ...

Don’t stop there, Justine Greening, the current model of aid is problematic
Bishop Kevin Dowling, guest contributor

Differing statements have appeared in the media over the past week about the decision by ...