| Make room at the top Free Rwandan student Tindyebwa Agaba graduated this week from Exeter University with a 2:1 in politics, six years after he first arrived in Britain. His father had died of Aids, his mother and sister were missing, and after fleeing genocide in his own country, ... | Power of the Catholic vote |
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Features
 When fist meets noseJack MahoneyPope Benedict’s recent encyclical is a major contribution to the debate on development goals. But, according to a leading business ethicist, it is less powerful when pitching rights against duties rather than emphasising the human solidarity of shared rights based on common creation in God’s image... |  Primate or protos?Kallistos WareWhen Catholics and Orthodox meet in Cyprus later this year, an ancient apostolic canon almost as old as Christianity itself could provide the breakthrough in helping to bridge the fundamental rift between the Churches of the West and those of the East ... |
Come, let us podMary ColwellWebsites of varying quality have sprung up as parishes look beyond bulletins or newsletters to communicate with their congregations. But it is possible, with the right training,
to make your website come alive with podcasts. An award-winning expert is your guide...
|  At your serviceChristopher LambIn recent years the Church has been sponsoring internships for young Catholics that familiarise them with the world of politics. Past and present graduates of the scheme talked to The Tablet about their peek down the corridors of power... |
Gift of the ambiguous gabJames MoranPulitzer prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt died this week having become one of the most successful contemporary writers. But in his negative and comic portrayals of Irish Catholic life, isn’t he just a true heir of Joyce?...
| Saved by a giftDaniel McCarthyAll suffering has universal significance. As our understanding of this truth develops over our lifetime, writes Daniel McCarthy, so we begin to see the deeper meaning of Christ’s Passion, and its memorial in the Eucharist...
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 Bridge builderAndrew CollierScotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is a Presbyterian by birth, yet he cites the late Cardinal Winning as an important influence. He tells Andrew Collier what led him across the divide... |
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Columnists
 Catherine Pepinster‘Romance no longer infects our ideas about love alone. It drives belief about death too’  Christopher Howse‘I introduce this tale factually for it falls into the genre of “You couldn’t make it up”’
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Books and arts
Of India rubber and alpenstocks Free
The Smell of the Continent: the British discover Europe
Richard Mullen and James Munson
Richard Mullen and James Munson have been studying the Victorians abroad for over 30 years, having become fascinated with the topic while students at Oxford. They started small: ... |
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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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