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John HaldaneThe debate surrounding the atheist philosopher Antony Flew’s alleged admission of the existence of God has resurfaced with the publication of his latest work, There is a God. Here, a philosophy professor with a ringside seat examines how Flew was embroiled in the culture wars of our time Free
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| Children need Fathers Free From time to time an idea comes along that captures the mood of the moment. Eight years ago a new organisation, Fathers Direct, did just that. Its main aim was to provide information on fatherhood through training and advice, but its very existence ... | Mr Sarkozy's Revolution |
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The problem with Pakistan Free Kevin Rafferty The world is faced with nuclear dangers on a worrying scale, but while the Western focus is on Iran, a greater threat is growing daily in a country seen as a bastion against terrorism...
| Can Aquinas help cool the planet?Catherine Pepinster Thomist virtues such as temperance, frugality, abstinence and compassion could be important weapons in the Church’s arsenal to fight global warming, according to one speaker at a major conference in Oxford on the ethics of climate change last week...
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A new song in the ValleysKaren Thomas For many years nationalist politics did not sit easily with Welsh Catholicism. But since the setting up of the Assembly and the influx of Catholic immigrants, common interests are becoming increasingly obvious, and new identities are being forged...
| Finding the right keyCole MoretonThe Vatican has given its blessing to the makers of a DVD that shows John Paul II at prayer, greeting crowds and singing. Now even the distinctly un-Catholic composer who wrote the score has fallen under the late Pope’s spell...
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Faith in the futureBernard QuinlanThe ideals of ‘empowering people’ and ‘lay leadership’ can mean little as long as parishes are wholly priest-centred. But necessity will bring change and transform the local church...
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Fiction’s sacramental insights Free Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: the English Catholic novel today Marian E. Crowe
In Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951), the third of what are often called his "Catholic novels", the convinced atheism of the sour and angry narrator, Maurice ... |
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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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