| Harsh words from Rome Free Celebration of the Eucharist is at the heart of Catholic identity, to the extent that regular attendance at Mass usually defines who is and who is not entitled to call themselves by that name. This may be why liturgical controversy in the Church sometimes ... | On track for new Europe |
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Features
A grain of wheatIan MilroyJesus reminded us that a seed that falls into the earth and dies bears much fruit. This parable is particularly poignant when applied to those who have fallen in war. Here, a relative of a soldier who was killed in Belgium in 1918 reflects on the unexpectedly positive reverberations of the death of his uncle...
|  Where the buck stopsConor Gearty Sir Ian Blair may be technically safe in his job as head of London?s Metropolitan Police Service, but his position is becoming shaky as public confidence in him and the force he leads ebbs away in the continuing wake of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes... |
Priest for the whole worldKevin F. BurkeA century ago on Wednesday, one of the modern age?s most influential Jesuits was born in Bilbao. After witnessing the horrors of Hiroshima, Pedro Arrupe headed the Society of Jesus, urging members to remember that the struggle for faith is also the struggle for justice...
| Money mattersChris BlackhurstIt might be hard for the rich to get to heaven, but that doesn?t mean business is a bad thing. Yet it is so denigrated in British culture that schools almost ignore it. That leaves two flawed television programmes to educate young people about wealth making...
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 Mission possibleJames Roberts It may be beset with tribal conflict, corrupt politicians, and disease-fuelled poverty, but the religious zeal of Africa has much to offer Europe in revitalising the Church, as Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson told James Roberts... | In the light of the pastKen O?RiordanOn Remembrance Sunday those who have died are made present. It is as though,
in this most Catholic of national rituals, ?a further shore is reachable from here?...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley?Extremism offers a rootless generation a strong sense of Muslim identity?  Nicholas Pyke?Normal jobs, combining hard work and average pay, are no longer acceptable?
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Books and arts
No pity for the honest imperialist Free
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Piers Brendon
This is a great book, vitiated, to my mind, by a great fault. Its author has claimed that it does for the British Empire what Gibbon did for the Roman. He may well be right ... |
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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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