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At first glance genetic modification seems a godsend in a world of spiralling food costs. But scratch the surface of such claims and a different picture emerges; one that places the starving firmly in the pockets of global agri-corporations and ignores food security Free

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A lasting legacy for the games Free

From Chris Hoy to Bradley Wiggins, from Rebecca Adlington to Christine Ohuruogu, British athletes have adorned the winners' rostra at the Olympic Games in Beijing, accumulating an almost unimaginable tally of gold medals. By the time The Tablet ...

Beware a new fascist Italy

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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

Features

An acceptable face for capitalism Free Clifford Longley With the all-conquering global free market seeming to trounce all competing social and economic ideologies, a moral and practical framework looks increasingly necessary. Could Catholic social teaching fill the gap?...	From Pugin to green peaceIsabel de Bertodano After more than a century occupying their flamboyant Victorian abbey, sisters from the Benedictine community at Stanbrook are looking forward to moving to a new purpose-built, environmentally sustainable, carbon-neutral convent in the North Yorkshire moors - Photo copyright: Neil Styles...
England’s holy AtlantisRichard Abbott Our continuing coastline odyssey brings us to the Suffolk village that once boasted a cathedral, a Knights Templar preceptory, churches, chapels and monasteries. Today all bar two languish beneath the relentless waves of the North Sea...	Once and for allDaniel McCarthy The prayer this week is for Christian unity and is based on our one baptism into Christ, says Daniel McCarthy. It is this common baptism, rather than denominational affiliation, that defines who is in God’s Church...

Off-peak savingsMarion Morgan Sunday Masses are always popular and busy, but it is the quieter services during the week, with their sense of space, that offer worshippers a unique opportunity for one-to-one spiritual conversation...	Forged in fireDonald Goergen Until his visit to World Youth Day, Benedict XVI had given little insight on his thinking on the Holy Spirit. The Pope’s trip to Australia also opened a window on his thoughts on other religions...
Back in the USSRKonstantin Eggert Russian military action in Georgia marks out an intended sphere of influence that extends to much of the old Soviet Union. And most Russians are delighted by this new-found assertiveness...	New dawn for red planetGuy Consolmagno

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Tim Hames

‘If one winds back 20 years it is hard to imagine Georgia as an independent entity’

Peter Stanford

‘Our small group at prayer was part of a continuum stretching back through history’

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Looking back to look forward Free
Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition
Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering (eds.)

Few theological subjects are more likely to provoke a good argument among Catholic theologians than the interpretation of the Second Vatican Council. Commentators have come to speak ...

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