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Roderick StrangeBeatification of John Henry Newman, England's most famous convert to Catholicism, is not far off, according to Cardinal Martins, the curial official in charge of canonisations. Such recognition should excite not only Catholics in Britain but Anglicans too, says the author of a new study of Newman Free
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| Questions that need answering Free Disraeli is supposed to have coined the phrase "lies, damned lies and statistics", which would, according to a recent report, be an apt comment on the accuracy of Catholic Mass attendance figures in England and Wales. Research by the Catholic ... | The BBC's unique role |
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Features
No honour in killing Free Yvonne RobertsSuicide among young Asian women is running at three time the national average – a shocking statistic that may mask an even darker scandal that has until now been almost routinely ignored, often through misguided political correctness...
| Called to his supperNicholas LashIt seemed a simple imperative: a request, from the Congregation for the Clergy, that each diocese should have a special shrine for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to make reparation for priestly misdemeanours and to pray for priests. But it is a telling moment, highlighting thinking in Rome about the purpose of the Eucharist...
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Bridging the divideTom GaisfordThe drowning of young migrant Moroccan men in the Bay of Cádiz prompted two local people to direct action. Now, more than four years on, they have transformed the lives of the drowned men’s relatives and the rest of the men, women and children from the Atlas mountain village of Hansala...
| Much more than a pass to schoolDiana KleinNews reports are claiming that lapsed or ‘marginal’ Catholic parents hoping to ensure places in oversubscribed Catholic schools are behind a surge in ‘late’ baptisms. But experience shows there are other reasons – and opportunities – in this request for later baptism...
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 A sense of differenceNicholas Williams In his first interview since taking over at London’s Barbican Arts Centre, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, former director of the BBC Proms, discusses with Nicholas Williams the place of music both in the concert hall and in church liturgy... | Worthy way to celebrateDaniel McCarthyBecause God elicits our cooperation in the saving work of Christ, remembered at the Eucharist he initiated, it is essential that we participate in a way that is not marginal, external or partial but conscious, active and full...
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 Go on with the showMichael Seed During this, the centenary year of Unity Week, it is tempting to focus on the failure to unite fully. But diversity is the very essence of the catholicity of Christianity... |  Rooted to place, drawn to mysteryPatrick O'Brien John O’Donohue, poet, philosopher and former priest, was acclaimed for his best-selling book on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. He died earlier this month aged 53... |
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘The changed law would create the presumption that the state owns your body when you die’  Ann Wroe‘They’ve signposted the distance not only to Fulford but that between the planets’
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Books and arts
Fruitful tension of extremes Free
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Garry Wills
This magisterial survey by one of the United States' leading lay Catholic writers spotlights two opposing force fields in American religion. Their names are legion, but ... |
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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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