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Elena CurtiFor 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
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| 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 |
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Features
 Where have all the thinkers gone? Free Robert MickensProgressive Catholics might think that Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who is 75 next week, would be concerned that the Church is moving away from the ideals of Vatican II. But what really concerns him, he tells Robert Mickens, is the scarcity of intellectuals among bishops... |  Matters of conscienceMichael QuinlanCatholics in public life today face increasingly difficult choices between the values of their faith and the actions demanded by their position. Here, a former senior civil servant of 38 years’ standing examines what the underlying principles of conduct ought to be... |
Through a glass clearlyJames LeachmanThe Prayer over the Gifts for the Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time, James Leachman explains, asks that our inner eye might be cleansed and purified so that we can amend our own behaviour and, cooperating with grace, see the action of God...
| Visionaries requiredJohn MulliganA parish pastoral council is hard work but it has an essential role in maintaining the smooth running of day-to-day church affairs while also thinking constantly about how to develop a strategy to further its commitment to mission...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘It would be churlish not to cheer the achievement that is Northern Ireland’  Margaret 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 ... |
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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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