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Neil ScoldingJust how reliable, asks a leading neuroscientist, are claims made for the research benefits of human-animal hybrid embryos – one of the most controversial elements in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now being debated in the House of Commons? Free
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| Issues that won't go away Free Cardinal John Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster at the time of the publication of Humanae Vitae 40 years ago this summer, described the crisis of authority it triggered as "the greatest shock the Church has suffered since the Reformation". ... | Burma’s moral failure |
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Features
 Care, and a community Free Terry PhilpotThe Government this week published proposals for funding care for the growing number of elderly people. But Religious are also having to think imaginatively about how they finance the residential care homes they run once they can no longer go it alone... | The slumbering monster stirsZaki CooperOn Wednesday the state of Israel, created in the wake of the Holocaust, celebrated its 60th birthday. Yet the anti-Semitism that found its most horrific expression in the Nazi death camps, and was supposed to be ended by the terrible lessons they gave us, is stalking Europe once again...
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 Spreading the WordCormac Murphy-O'ConnorIn the last in a series of public lectures at Westminster Cathedral, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, called on believers and non-believers to find a basis for dialogue founded on mutual respect and shared values... | To save lives, save faceKevin RaffertyAid agencies and the UN fear that hundreds of thousands of people could have died through the Burmese junta’s stalling of the relief effort following this month’s cyclone. But it is still necessary to humour the leaders if help is to reach the victims...
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They also serveDaniel McCarthyAs they await the Second Coming, the faithful are, as Luke says, like alert slaves awaiting the master’s return. In the Prayer over the Gifts on Trinity Sunday, they ask God to sanctify their service, as Daniel McCarthy explains...
| Windows of wonderDaniel O’LearyContemplation is not a technique to be mastered but a journey inside ourselves to become one with what already is. When we do this and glimpse what is there, it takes our breath away...
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Out of the great silenceNikki Dhillon KeaneCatholic Deaf Awareness Week, 11-18 May, offers a chance to think about the issues faced by deaf people and to consider more deeply what ‘Catholic’ philosophy means...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘The political autobiography trade has become a dash for cash’  Ann Wroe‘The deepest impression of the sea of bluebells is of receptive, listening silence’
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Books and arts
Continent’s awkward partnership Free
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
Stephen Wall
Madam, there are 50,000 men slain this day in Europe, and not one Englishman." Sir Robert Walpole's justification of his refusal to embroil Britain in the European quarrels ... |
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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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