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Isabel de BertodanoAs the recession deepens, food banks offer emergency supplies, stepping into the breach when other services fail. The Trussell Trust, the charity that oversees them, is galvanising Churches and politicians to address one of the greatest problems exacerbated by the economic crisis: hunger Free
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| Priests to the fore Free The pendulum eventually had to swing the other way. Since the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church has wrestled with the true significance of the common priesthood of the People of God based on Baptism. It rebalanced in many fundamental ways ... | A system in need of mending |
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Features
 Not if but when for BrownJulia LangdonThe signal from 10 Downing Street is that it is business as usual, with the new Cabinet having met for the first time this week. But Labour's disastrous showing in the recent elections and the departure of several key ministers mean that Gordon Brown's leadership remains on a knife-edge... | A pastoral heartSally McAllisterTen years ago Cardinal Basil Hume died, mourned not only by Catholics but by the whole nation. Here, in an exclusive extract from a new memoir of him, his former secretary recalls the man, monk and cardinal she knew: prayerful, fun, compassionate, on occasion melancholic, and ready to die...
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New votes for oldConor GeartyAs apathy about politics grows, Gordon Brown has signalled that he is willing to consider electoral reform should there be support for changing the first-past-the-post system. Here a professor of law argues that reform would encourage a new interest in democratic government...
| Share in divinityDaniel McCarthyThis Sunday's prayer is one of the few addressed directly to Christ, says Daniel McCarthy, and stands between two moments of ritual exchange. The faithful draw near to receive his body and blood in Communion and, like him, come to offer themselves in service to the world...
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 Across the decades, across the dividesChris ChiversBorn 80 years ago this week, Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who chronicled her hopes and fears as she hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam, is helping to bring together Christians and Muslims in one of Britain's most multicultural towns... |  Africa's tarnished gold rushMike PflanzThe price of gold has soared in the global economic crisis as investors seek a safe haven for their money. But the increase has brought little benefit to Congo's miners, who work in primitive conditions in the hope of one day striking lucky... |
 Discoverers of the dreamMark O'TooleNext Friday the Pope will inaugurate the Year for Priests with a vespers at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. In the first of a new series on priesthood, a seminary rector examines the central relationship between priest and people... |
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Columnists
David Blair'The best case for keeping Trident is that it makes nuclear proliferation less likely'  Christopher Howse'The mayor of a town near Cadiz was fined for calling the king "son of a lender"'
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Books and arts
Immigrants to a land of emigrants Free
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: can Europe be the same with different people in it?
Christopher Caldwell
I know a thing or two about immigrants and asylum seekers, having lived in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. There, as the country broke up, a regular emigration "fever" broke ... |
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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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