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Latest issue: 31 May 2008
Last updated: 19 June 2013

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In the shadow of the wall

Elena Curti

For 60 years, as long as the state of Israel has been in existence, the Comboni Sisters have been in Bethany, serving their neighbourhood. Now their community life is dominated by the Israelis’ security fence. While it has curbed bombings, it is also strangling the life out of many communities Free 

 From the editor’s desk


How best to speak the truth Free 

Relations between Christians and Muslims have never been more sensitive nor crucial to the peace and prosperity of the planet. Both have their fundamentalists, to whom outright conversion of the other is the only acceptable goal. The mainstream in ...

The long view on fuel prices

From creation to 're-creation'
The Holy See's pavilion at Venice Biennale
Local authorities 'wary of faith groups but rely on their services'
Report by MPs finds low level of religious literacy among councils
Middle classes dominant in top Catholic schools
The Sutton Trust
Ronald Knox, theologian, author, Bible translator
Colloquium at Heythrop College celebrated life of prominent convert

Vatican II ‐ an unprecedented event, a council like no other
Cardinal Godfried Danneels speaks at Southwark Cathedral
Don't let anyone tell you the Council didn't change much
Robert Blair Kaiser gives the 2012 Tablet Lecture

 Features

 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

‘It would be churlish not to cheer the achievement that is Northern Ireland’

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Margaret HebblethwaiteMargaret Hebblethwaite

‘Chávez greeted Lugo with delight at Lima. “We are the bad boys here,” he said’

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 Books and arts

Still a convent girl at heart Free 
Speaking for Myself
Cherie Blair
Sometimes I just wish Anthony Clare was still with us. The late Irish psychiatrist's radio programme, In The Psychiatrist's Chair, was compulsive listening, as he used his ...

       


Churches under-valued or over-estimating themselves?
Francis Davis, guest contributor

It is not long now until the Local Government Association annual conference. This premier ...

Hume knew Alan Hopes would one day be bishop
Fr Mark Woodruff, guest contributor

When 12 Anglican priests in 1995 reached the end of nearly two years of transition and preparation ...

Anglican patrimony is becoming a reality
James Roberts

As a convert from Anglicanism I have been curious since Benedict XVI paved the way for the ...


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