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Theo HobsonWith an Anglo-Catholic antipathy to secular liberalism dating back to Newman, Rowan Williams is seen by many as more of a thinker than a leader, something he too was conscious of when he was enthroned as the Anglicans’ leader five years ago this month Free
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| Crisis of identity Free A week is a long time in an archiepiscopacy, as Dr Rowan Williams found last week. First, a learned lecture, coupled with a radio interview. Then vitriol poured upon vitriol through newspaper headlines. There were 17,000 emails of complaint to the ... | US justice goes on trial |
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Features
 The job of religionsClifford Longley There is no need for the Archbishop of Canterbury to apologise for his remarks about faith and the state, for, far from cowering at the side of the public square, it is the role of all religions to be a threat to self-serving secularism and the pursuit of pleasure that seems its only value... |  Still fighting for peaceElena Curti One of the best-known faces of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Bruce Kent, talks to Elena Curti about the founding of the group 50 years ago, his involvement with the movement, how he had to choose between it and the priesthood, and the current state of the Church... |
Act of mature faithDaniel McCarthyThe prayer over the gifts for the second Sunday in Lent expresses the interplay of celebration and sanctification on our Christian journey, for which trust in God is central. The Eucharist, writes Daniel McCarthy, marks the start and finish of this process of spiritual development...
| Too shy about sinJohn ArnoldThe Sacrament of Reconciliation has slipped out of the lives of many Catholics, who do not seem to feel comfortable talking about deeply personal things in the context of the confessional. But the discovery of our faults can show us how everything can be turned to good...
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More than mere satchel bearers Free Edward KesslerOld wounds have been re-opened by the controversial revision of the Latin prayer for the Tridentine Good Friday liturgy. Most hurtful is the patristic view that Jewish holy books were just the carriers of revelation until the election of Gentile scripture...
|  A cheerful, joyous loveCardinal Basil Hume Positive resolutions feature in this meditation for the second Sunday of Lent by the late Cardinal Basil Hume. He looks at the hope that Easter represents, the need to turn to God and resisting what separates us from Him.... |
Wise and helpful wordsChris ChiversTo many engaged on the front line of interfaith dialogue,
such as the canon of Blackburn Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s views are correct in pointing a way forward. Indeed, he says, we must act now before it is too late...
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Work: our individual liturgy Free
The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
Craftsmanship is an enduring, human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake, declares Richard Sennett. He is a professor both in New York and at the London School of ...
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Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann
So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ... Does Cardinal O’Brien deserve banishment or pardon? He at least owes us an explanation
Elena Curti, Deputy Editor
The return of Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien to Scotland has for many Catholics rubbed salt ... Don’t stop there, Justine Greening, the current model of aid is problematic
Bishop Kevin Dowling, guest contributor
Differing statements have appeared in the media over the past week about the decision by ...
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