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Nicholas 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? Free
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| Covenant with the Jews Free The German theologian, Johannes Baptist Metz, once posed the rhetorical question: was it any longer possible to pray "with one's back turned to Auschwitz"? He felt that the immensity of suffering and evil inflicted on the Jews in the ... | The health of America |
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Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text
The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ... | Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'
Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ... |
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Features
Latin vote comes alive Free Richard RodriguezThirty 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...
|  Forty days in the desertCardinal Basil Hume 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.... |
 Truth or security?Conor Gearty 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... | Witness to a lifeCarolyn ButlerNovelist 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...
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Death of a salesmanJason BerryOnce 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...
| Fitting offeringDaniel McCarthyAt 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...
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 Repent and renewMark Dowd 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... | Letting go to love the betterJames LeachmanLent 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...
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Books and arts
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Milton: poet, pamphleteer and patriot
Anna Beer
T.S. Eliot, in his mischief, was not beyond the inventing of delicious critical phrases, phrases not exactly misleading but so memorable that they come to stand between the reader ... |
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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 ... Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb
When do the bad actions of a few completely overshadow the good of the past?
This question ...
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