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Latest issue: 4 October 2008
Last updated: 20 May 2013

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Who needs a lifeline?

David Gibson

Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga was in New York last week with some timely – and pointed – words for a marketplace in meltdown. David Gibson spoke to the Salesian after his address to a UN summit on global poverty Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Rule for an age of misrule Free 

When the Cistercian monk and author Thomas Merton first visited the monastery that was to become his home, the Abbey of Gethsemani, he is said to have exclaimed that he had discovered the only real city in America. It was a comment that conveyed how ...

More substance still needed

Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
Hospitals must ensure the LCP is not misapplied
Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Same-sex marriage bill must not discriminate against the Church
Archbishop Vincent Nichols calls for amendments to the legislation ahead of next week's debate

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 is possible to detect a silver lining to this darkest of clouds’

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Nicholas PykeNicholas Pyke

‘It is doubtful if more diversity and competition can really be the answer’

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 Books and arts

Religion in a political minefield Free 
Christianity in India: from beginnings to the present
Robert Eric Frykenberg
We hear a lot these days about India as a potential economic superpower, as a scene of Hindu-Muslim conflict and as an object of Raj nostalgia, but not much about Indian Christians: ...

       
Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann

So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ...

Does Cardinal O’Brien deserve banishment or pardon? He at least owes us an explanation
Elena Curti, Deputy Editor

The return of Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien to Scotland has for many Catholics rubbed salt ...

Don’t stop there, Justine Greening, the current model of aid is problematic
Bishop Kevin Dowling, guest contributor

Differing statements have appeared in the media over the past week about the decision by ...