Latest issue: 1 March 2008 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 
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Priests seek new form of married ministry  | New president meets the Pope's no. 2 | | Celibacy row creates further division | Judge sentenced for banning crucifix in court  | Euthanasia bill to become law  | Spanish bishops to choose new leader | | Islamic scholars to revise texts that form basis for sharia law | St Patrick's Day conundrum  | |
Featured ArticlesFavoured sons ... and daughters Robert Mickens  Favoured sons ... and daughtersWith 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...
Do I know you? Brendan McCarthy Do I know you? 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...
A destabilising independence Ivor Roberts A destabilising independence 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...
Parting of the ways, Jewish-style Isabel de BertodanoParting of the ways, Jewish-styleIn 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...
In search of God Cardinal Basil Hume In search of God 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 world Daniel McCarthyBalm for the worldThe 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'...
To dismiss or not dismiss Ken O'RiordanTo dismiss or not dismissLent 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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