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Bernadette FarrellTuesday's primaries in Texas and Ohio are crucial in determining the Democrats' candidate in November's race to the White House. The front-runner is Barack Obama, whose vision of bringing communities together to achieve change is capturing voters' imaginations Free
From the editor’s desk
| A self-inflicted wound Free Although well aware that Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg favoured celibacy being made optional in the Catholic Church, the bishops of Germany recently elected him as their president in succession to Cardinal Karl Lehmann. That is not the only ... | US politics is alive and well |
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Features
Favoured sons ... and daughters Free Robert MickensWith more bishops than any other order in the Church, and a "family" of 400,000 priests, Religious and lay helpers, the Salesians, whose twenty-sixth General Chapter opens in Rome on Monday, are also being promoted to key posts at the Vatican...
|  A destabilising independenceIvor Roberts Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on 17 February, Serbs have staged violent demonstrations against the US and against many EU countries that supported the move. It is feared that recognition of Kosovo has set a dangerous precedent, with consequences far beyond its borders... |
 In search of GodCardinal Basil Hume The warmth of the welcome given by the father to the Prodigal Son offers profound hope to us all. In his meditation for the fourth Sunday of Lent, the late Cardinal Basil Hume writes about our search for God, the stumbling blocks we encounter and how these are overcome... | Balm for the worldDaniel McCarthyThe prayer for Laetare Sunday prefigures the rejoicing that all those can anticipate who are preparing to be baptised or received into the Church at the Easter Vigil. The gift of Christ's body and blood, writes Daniel McCarthy, is the 'immortal remedy'...
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Parting of the ways, Jewish-styleIsabel de BertodanoIn the second of our series on religious law - following the Archbishop of Canterbury's controversial lecture on sharia which highlighted the issue of how religious and civil laws operate side by side - we look at how divorce is dealt with in Judaism...
|  Do I know you?Brendan McCarthy Despite fewer people logging on to web-based social networking sites this year than last, they continue to attract millions. But virtual acquaintance is no substitute for human friendship... |
To dismiss or not dismissKen O'RiordanLent offers an opportunity for radical initiatives, and the rites associated with the reception into the Church of catechumens offer ways of facilitating such initiatives that are too often ignored...
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Columnists
Clifford Longley'State intervention - call it socialism, call it Catholic social teaching - is back on the agenda and will not go away'  Nicholas Pyke'Changing head teachers is, broadly speaking, a waste of time'
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Books and arts
In the climate of their time Free
Catholics in the Movies
Ed. Colleen McDannell
As a convent schoolgirl I passionately loved the cinema (only in the holidays, of course) but it never occurred to me to consider films sociologically. Mostly they reflected America, ... |
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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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