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Latest issue: 2 May 2008
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Hungry for change

Thomas Lines

Rice is the most vital of basic foods, feeding nearly half the human population, so a recent surge in prices has provoked riots in some countries in Africa and Asia. It is part of an unprecedented global food crisis that, unless it is solved, threatens the lives of the poorest people in the world Free 

 From the editor’s desk


A question of BBC trust Free 

Trust cannot be taken for granted just because it is on the letterhead. The BBC Trust's handling of a complaint against the "Panorama" television programme "Sex Crimes and the Vatican", transmitted in 2006, will dismay those ...

Life without mugabe

 Texts in full

The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

 Features

 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

‘The odds are, but only just, that Mrs Clinton will indeed prevail in Indiana’

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Peter StanfordPeter Stanford

‘Children don’t need to hear that Mark Speight has excluded himself from heaven’

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 Books and arts

Flawed analysis of the Jesus of History Free 
How Jesus Became Christian: the early Christians and the transformation of a Jewish teacher into the Son of God
Barrie Wilson

In re-examining the birth of Christianity, this book purports to be "based on real historical evidence" and to show "how the early Christians hijacked a Jewish Jesus" ...

       
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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