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Michael Sean WintersIn his inaugural address, President Barack Obama spoke of restoring science, which he believes was unduly restricted under the Bush administration, to ‘its rightful place’. The impact on a whole range of research with bioethical implications may be considerable Free
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| A nation reborn Free The sights and sounds of President Obama's inauguration had a deep resonance not just in the United States but around the world. The richest and most powerful nation on earth was undergoing - in public - a personality transplant. His inaugural address ... | Look first to the poor |
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Features
 Pioneering educator who challenged RomeJane LiveseyFour hundred years ago an order of nuns was founded by Mary Ward, who defied the pope with her belief that women had it in them to ‘do great matters’. A commemorative Mass this week at York Minster highlights reconciliation in a city associated with the persecutions of the Reformation... | Everything changes, in timeJohn DeehanThe Feast of the Conversion of St Paul is celebrated tomorrow. While coming to serve Christ is the starting point of conversion, people are like Paul in that they do not instantly become models of excellent thought and practice. It is in the parish they can learn to imitate Jesus more closely...
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New life, freely givenDaniel McCarthyBy the grace of God, the faithful are able to give life in the way God gave life in the Creation and in the gift and Resurrection of his Son. In this prayer, Daniel McCarthy tells us, we ask that we as the redeemed might be nourished by the Holy Spirit so that we can partake of divine glory...
|  Could the shutters yet come down?Nicholas LashFifty years ago this week, Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council. Today, some suggest that the council was a break with the past rather than a movement of reform. What has been lost, says a leading theologian, is confidence about the council and its changes... |
 Return of the big beastWilliam KeeganIn an economic downturn, who will people trust as their politicians – those with experience, or those with intuition, self-confidence and sheer luck? History suggests that leadership in such a crisis requires more than an ability with figures... | Defining momentsDaniel O’LearyA Church is emerging that may yet answer the post-Vatican II hopes of spirituality, repentance, humanity and ecumenism. But the Holy Spirit will not be controlled, and blows where it wills...
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Columnists
 Christopher Howse‘At least Mr Portillo feels he can declare his Erastian beliefs in public’  Catherine Pepinster‘Memories offer little at a difficult funeral, and difficult funerals are plenty’
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Books and arts
Unruly passions, saving grace Free
Evolution or Creation: do we have to choose?
Denis Alexander
What do we mean by evolution? Denis Alexander, a distinguished immunologist and a biblically literate Christian, gives as good an answer in 100 clearly written pages as one is likely ... |
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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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