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 Timely RemindersNicholas KingCalls to prayer in Europe were once associated with the bells of churches. Today, the cry of the muezzin is increasingly familiar and in Oxford a row has erupted over a bid by the city’s mosque to broadcast the call. Could it be just the wake-up call people need? Church in the WorldPope orders change in Tridentine prayer for Jews |
KenyaCardinal’s comments ‘endangered priests’ | NetherlandsTheologian gives support to rebuked Dominicans |
PakistanChapels for Christians in prison | PhilippinesArroyo in clash over Vatican ambassador |
RomeMartini warns Synod to preserve Council teaching on Scripture | SpainSocialists threaten to withhold state aid from Church |
SwitzerlandAbuse scandals rock Swiss Church | TurkeyGovernment hints at ‘new view’ of Christians |
United StatesPope’s six days in America | VietnamVietnamese Church regains nunciature |
Latin vote comes alive
Thirty years ago the then US President Richard Nixon identified his country’s Spanish-speaking people as a political force. Today there are some 40 million Hispanics whose votes are determining not just the presidential candidates, but the winner in this year’s race to the White House...
Repent and renewRepent and renew
In a powerful message this week given to MPs as they prepare urgent measures to combat climate change, Lenten observance is promoted as a time to see the world and our lives anew...
Witness to a life
Novelist and journalist Angela Lambert, who died last year, was known for her staunchly feminist views. She had been shocked by her daughter’s conversion 22 years earlier, to Catholicism. But as she lay dying, mother and daughter – two very different women – found a spiritual reconciliation...
Truth or security?Truth or security?
Currently in the limelight during the controversial inquest into the death of Princess Diana, the ancient practices of coroners’ courts, designed solely to establish facts rather than apportion blame, are under threat from the Government’s new draft anti-terrorism legislation...
Death of a salesman
Once hosted and toasted throughout the Catholic world, the now disgraced priest who raised millions for the Church by selling an ultraorthodox version of Catholicism through the Order he founded was buried this week in Mexico...
Forty days in the desertForty days in the desert
What can we learn from the gospel accounts of the devil’s encounter with Christ in the desert? In the second of our series of meditations for Lent, the late Cardinal Basil Hume explains how the three temptations express our need for faith, hope and strength in apparent weakness....
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Former convent schools - Teaching in Thailand - 'Dumbed down' courses...
Fitting offering
At the beginning of Lent, we pray that we may be prepared for the offering of our gifts to God. Through participating and yielding, writes Daniel McCarthy, we engage in the transforming gift of ourselves to the Lord...
Letting go to love the better
Lent began to develop early on in the Church’s life as a period of prayerful and disciplined solidarity of the clergy and the faithful with those preparing for their baptism at Easter...
