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The most interesting American presidential primary contest in living memory has drawn to a close, with an outcome that 12 months ago would have seemed truly extraordinary. The young Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan and mother ...

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Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text

The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ...

Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'

Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ...

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Fiddling while Earth burns Free Kevin Rafferty Last week it was the G8 environment ministers; this week it’s a UN summit in Rome on the food crisis; next week it’s finance ministers ahead of the G8 summit proper in Japan next month: all producing little more than hot air to add to the greenhouse gases threatening our planet...	Hymns ancient but modernJames Leachman Poet, ecologist, feminist: a theologian described like this sounds as if he or she would be a product of the twenty-first century. But St Ephrem, born in the third century, was all these things. Today’s Church is beginning to appreciate the wisdom of his words...
In which we serveDaniel McCarthy The Prayer Over the Gifts for this Sunday, which is inspired by Solomon’s offering of a prayer at the dedication of the temple in Jerusalem, interprets the Christian liturgy in terms of service that leads to love. Daniel McCarthy examines the subtleties of the translation...	The Cross and the wheelMartin Ganeri Whether contemplating Christ’s sacrifice or the spinning of a mantra, compassion is at the core of prayer for Christian and Buddhist alike, to the manifest delight of those who met the Dalai Lama at Blackfriars in Oxford last week...

Bless this houseMichael Phelan The days when priests were regular visitors to the homes of parishioners are long gone, but the offer of house blessings is likely to be eagerly accepted. They can offer many opportunities for enriching the faith of householders...	A man for all reasons
River of lifeRose Prince

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Clifford Longley

‘The answer to the evangelical preacher’s “Are you saved?” is a laconic “From what?”’

Christopher Howse

‘Finding a Mass in Gaelic in Scotland would be harder than finding a kilt in Krakow’

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The rise of the Asian giants Free
Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade
Bill Emmott

China and India are invoked as bogeys by British politicians seeking to persuade the public that the economy must become more competitive to survive in an age of globalisation ...

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