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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

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Religious groups face ‘legal uncertainty’ around gay marriage

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‘Glaring errors’ in disability tests

Belgians ‘losing knowledge of faith’

Call for alliance against Boko Haram

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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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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

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

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

Where have all the thinkers gone? Free Robert Mickens Progressive 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 Quinlan Catholics 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 Leachman The 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 Mulligan A 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...

Priest and prophet

Uneasy riderDominic Prince

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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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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