| On the peace road again Free The stakes could hardly be higher, but so are the odds. The international peace conference convened by President George Bush in Annapolis in the United States has brought together more than 40 states and international agencies in the search for the ... | The need to listen |
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Features
 Rendering unto Caesar Free Stephen Wall A former adviser to Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor explains why he is struggling with recent approaches to some of the conflicts between Church and State. Indeed, it is the State that exhibits the very tolerance that should be at the heart of Christianity... |  Solidarity of the shamrockChris Blackhurst Irish migrants to Britain in the twentieth century tended to be hard-working, escaping from poverty and Catholic – just like Eastern Europeans today. And while some migrants flourish, others do not. This weekend sees a remarkable example of Irish philanthropy that few other groups can rival... |
Knocking at the doorJames LeachmanJust as catechumens have begun listening to the Word of God as it ‘echoes down’ within them, so at Advent we all wait to welcome the Word made flesh into our lives more profoundly than ever. How we celebrate the Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens should reflect this time of hope...
| The cracks begin to showAlain WoodrowViolence has flared again in the Paris suburbs, adding a new dimension to the troubles now besetting France. Although apparently unrelated to the recent wave of industrial unrest the rioting adds further pressure to France’s new president who has seen his opinion-poll ratings slump...
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 Future reclaimedPatrick Nicholson In 2004, the author reported from Cambodia that HIV and Aids threatened to overwhelm the country. In the run-up to World Aids Day today, he returned. Remarkably, he found that the circumstances of many people, and the situation nationally, had been transformed... | Gifts offered back to GodDaniel McCarthyFollowing on from our series on the Opening Prayer of the Mass, Daniel McCarthy returns with another series of liturgical guides, this time to the Prayers over the Gifts. The start of our Advent preparations for Christmas reflect the kindnesses of God that we honour...
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Flickering light of freedomEdward KesslerThis week sees the beginning of the holiday of Hanukkah. For Jews this ‘Festival of Lights’ marks a victory over the forces that tried to impose one idolatrous religion on all peoples. Today it can be seen as celebrating the human right of religious freedom...
|  Cast away in KampalaJulia Langdon Following an evident lack of interest in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda by Britain’s Government and media, some are now asking if the institution founded on the back of the British Empire can survive... |
Poetry of the divine mysterySr Wendy BeckettThe few surviving icons of Mary painted before the eighth century tell their own story about the early Christians’ veneration of the Mother of God. In the first in our series for Advent, Wendy Beckett reflects on a work from Mount Sinai...
| Books of the YearThe Tablet's reviewers on the books that have inspired, informed and entertained them in 2007...
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Dangerous Utopias of godless religions Free
The New Atheists
Tina Beattie
The agenda of the new atheists is disturbing: they embrace a belief system as intolerant, chauvinist and bigoted as that of religious fundamentalists, proposing a route to the moral ... |
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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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