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At least one Catholic Cabinet Minister is threatening to revolt against the Government over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. There is anger that it appears to be violating the long-held principle of allowing a free vote on matters of conscience Free

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Labour's failure of conscience Free

Catholic MPs on the Government side have demanded a free vote - without party whips - so that they can vote against certain clauses of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now before Parliament. Three Catholic members of the Cabinet have indicated ...

Cream is not just for cats

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Koch: ‘Church has become ally in fight against anti-Semitism'
Vatican cardinal recounts 50 years of Catholic-Jewish dialogue

I am honoured to be here today to present the John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding, the fifth in a series of prestigious annual lectures organised by the ...

Secularism - good or bad?
Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views

The two most senior clerics in England and Wales set out on the same day contrasting visions of the threats posed to Christianity by secularism.

In a lecture at ...

Features

Spain's polarising polls Free Julius Purcell Elections have consolidated a growing ideological divide on the Iberian peninsula as the returned premier prepares to lock horns with the new traditionalist head of the Spanish bishops’ conference...	Our own betrayal of ChristCardinal Basil Hume As we consider Judas’ betrayal of Jesus it can be tempting to focus on the failings of others. In this meditation for Holy Week, the late Cardinal Basil Hume reminds us that Christ died not just because of the sin of Judas but because of the sin of the whole world....
Whose cells are they anyway?Jennifer Swift Under pressure from scientists, the Government looks set to allow human cells to be used to create hybrid embryos without seeking donors’ consent. Such a move means that even a blood sample could be used to create a cloned embryo ...	A time to be bornJames Leachman In the past 1,000 years the Pauline imagery of death and resurrection has dominated the liturgy associated with baptism. But the early Church placed a much stronger emphasis on birth and rebirth – right down to the feminine form of the font...

Through Passion to gloryDaniel McCarthy We cannot be reconciled to God by our own efforts. But, as Daniel McCarthy explains, through the Incarnation, Christ’s death, and his enthronement ‘at the right hand of God’, humanity is enabled to share in divine life ...	Where angels gladly treadRichard Abbott In the past, Catholics walked labyrinths as part of their Lenten observances, and as an aid to prayer. But the history of these twisting paths is as circuitous and mysterious as the patterns themselves...
Divided we fallMary Colwell and Mark Dowd Two Catholic environment campaigners respond to Austin Williams’ accusation of ‘creeping Malthusian misanthropy’ in last week’s Tablet and explain why addressing global warming is essential to the survival of humanity...	Common causeConor Gearty Discussions between the Catholic Church and human-rights activists have often focused on what divides them. But a recent Dublin conference suggested that what they share is crucial...
St Patrik's Day special featureJames Moran, Niall Coll Ireland in the heart of England - Order on the front line ...	As drunk as a wheelbarrowJohn Morrish

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Clifford Longley

‘People are telling themselves that contraception is not a sin but a necessity’

Christopher Howse’s Presswatch

‘I’m not sure many moral theologians censure test-tube sheep breeding’

Books and arts

Road to a precarious peace Free
Ireland: the politics of enmity 1789-2006
Paul Bew

That the Irish have a strong sense of the past, as Harold Nicolson once remarked, is untrue: "it is just that for the Irish, the present begins in 1170" ...

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