| Amnesty's Orwellian option Free Ever since the Catholic Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1961, the story of the pressure group has been one of heartbreak. While the group, now with 1.8 million members around the world, has been hugely successful in highlighting the ... | Family values, human rights |
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Features
 An eye for the other Free Theo Hobson John D. Zizioulas is probably the best-known voice of the Orthodox Church in Britain, with 40 years' experience of advances and reversals in ecumenical dialogue, and is able to count the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, among his many admirers. Theo Hobson talked to him about the themes of his new book... |  Constitutional mythJeremy Morris Britain?s monarch is not the head of the Church of England, merely its Supreme Governor, with power to hire and fire but not to teach and preach. So, to answer the anxieties posed last week by the Bishop of Winchester, an Anglican academic asks if it would really be a problem if the king or queen were a Roman Catholic... |
'Wrought by prayer'Victoria CombeWhen Fleet Street legend Bill Deedes died last week aged 94, much was made of his links to an earlier, more ?gentlemanly? age. Yet in his eighties, underpinned by his faith, he embraced ?new tech? to report on the persecution of Christians and came close to converting to Catholicism himself...
|  Fears, tears and antidepressantsTheodore Dalrymple Over-prescription of pills, whose efficacy is in dispute, to combat today?s all-pervasive diagnosis of depression is not just a medical problem but a cultural one as well. It says patients have little responsibility for their unhappy condition bar taking their tablets... |
 God's bright beaconsRichard Abbott Strung along the north Norfolk coastline, the Anglican churches of the Saxonshore Benefice testify to more than a millennium of Christian ministry. The fourth of our summer series finds physical as well as spiritual sanctuary amid the salt marshes and sand dunes... | The opportunity of baptismSimon PeatFor many parents, a new baby brings about profound changes as they evaluate what is
truly important in life, and what they want to pass on. They may not be practising
their faith, but they would like their child to be baptised. How should the priest respond?...
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Faith in our FathersKenneth NoakesFirst held more than 50 years ago, an international conference held every four years at Oxford University to examine the work of the founding figures of Christianity continues to be a powerful draw for scholars the world over, young and old alike...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames'The Churches have taken more interest than politicians in the issue or personal debt'  Peter Stanford'Perhaps he mistook my dressing gown for a Primitive Methodist clerical robe'
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Books and arts
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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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