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Isabel de BertodanoReligious publishing was once written off, but today books about spirituality are seized on by publishers and devoured by readers. The market has shrunk, but some writers have never had it so good. The new era of religious writing involves little money – but a good deal of complexity Free
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| In the service of the Church Free Profound questions are raised by the way Cardinal Franc Rodé, head of the Vatican department that deals with religious orders, admonished the Society of Jesus for failing to "think with the Church". In a sermon at the start of their ... | Lessons from the primaries |
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Features
Benedict’s Vice-Pope Free Robert MickensIt was the day after the ‘Regensburg’ speech when Tarcisio Bertone was installed as the Vatican’s Secretary of State, and he hit the ground running. Since then this populist and voluble cardinal – fiercely loyal to his cerebral boss – has remained a controversial figure...
|  Kenya’s great riftAlfons Eppink The Church in Kenya has provided enormous pastoral support during recent post-election violence, but in the moral guidance it has offered the country, it has so far failed to cover itself in glory, as our correspondent reports from Kisumu... |
 Mini-Poland: a place too like homeThomas Norton Polish Catholics in England and Wales have had their own church structure for 60 years and guard it jealously. Now there are signs that the influx of new migrants may force a change in the relationship between it and the wider Church here... |  Still dissenting after all these yearsTheo Hobson As a monk who, at 90, can claim a reasonable degree of acquaintance with both God and the Church, Sebastian Moore is well placed to question where the latter might be mistaken, in the eyes of the former. He talks to Theo Hobson... |
The Son revealedListen to the WordThe process begun by the Holy Spirit at the Annunciation culminates in the Baptism of Christ at the end of the Advent-Christmas cycle. Alongside the Son of God, we too are children of the Lord, our adoption expressed in the Eucharist...
| Not Jerusalem. Not Italy. But Cornwall 2008Bryan StoreyAs a Cornish artist’s modern-dress take on Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is unveiled, the priest-in-charge of the church where it will hang outlines its contemporary message...
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Gentle as silenceAdrian SmithQuiet times during the Mass can make many people uneasy, but it is essential that we listen to God as well as talking or singing to him. The stillness of meditation allows him to reach us...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘Voters like a plucky underdog and Mrs Clinton had become that by Tuesday’  Mona Siddiqui‘Blaming another faith for the problems in one’s own cannot be a solution’
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Books and arts
Eagles’ nest in a tin hut Free
Birds, Bees and Beasts
John Bradburne (ed. David Crystal)
When he was killed in 1979, John Bradburne left 6,000 pages of poetry in the tin hut at the Mutemwa leprosy settlement in Zimbabwe where he had lived for a decade. One day bees had ... |
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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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