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Elena CurtiPaul Moore warned his employers at the banking giant HBOS that he believed lending had got out of control. He claims he lost his job as a result. In going public with his story, he tells Elena Curti, he found the inspiration to be a whistleblower through his Catholic faith Free
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| Newman for the nation Free Authorities in Rome have indicated that they want next year’s beatification of John Henry Newman to be conducted in Birmingham, his adopted city. This is a challenge that raises deeper questions – what is the real significance of Newman’s ... | Bring the banks to heel |
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Features
‘The original Distributists have much to say that is still relevant 80 years on’Jennifer SwiftWhen G. K. Chesterton started the Distributist League in 1926, the whole thing was seen as a bit of a joke by many, writes Jennifer Swift. It was said by its critics that the League’s chief activity was “holding monthly meetings at Devereaux, where distributists drove down in their motorcars to discuss the abolition of machinery”....
|  True to their rootsAbigail FrymannIt is 400 years since the founding of the Baptist movement, the Nonconformist congregation that rejected many of the practices of the established Protestant Church of England. Baptists today remain proudly autonomous, as sceptical as ever about formal ties to the state... |
 Miracle of the Welsh LazarusRichard AbbottMany of the historic wells of Britain have both pagan and Christian affiliation and today are pilgrimage sites and tourist attractions. In the first of our new summer series we sample the crystal waters of the well of the seventh-century saint Winefride, in North Wales... | Was Chesterton right?Bernard ManzoState socialism died by and large two decades ago. Now globalised capitalism looks as if it could be on the way out. It seems it might be the right moment for the revival of a third way inspired
by the social teaching of the Church. A recent conference at Oxford certainly thought so...
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Transformed and redeemedDaniel McCarthyWe mature as Christians by renewing ourselves in cooperation with the gifts of God. This prayer reflects that process in its structure, writes Daniel McCarthy, while – in the Latin – the ones who benefit from God’s actions and are transformed are subtly and deliberately undefined...
|  So the last must be first and the first be lastBen AndradiAs more jobs fall victim to the recession, a City financier considers how failing businesses are handled. He concludes that current custom is morally unacceptable and, using the Pope’s recent encyclical as a guiding light, offers a practical solution... |
 A better way to do businessTim SharpSharing ownership of an enterprise among customers or employees is not new, but since the global financial meltdown, it has been apparent that many of those businesses that are structured in this way have survived the crisis remarkably well... | An eternal embraceDavid DeboysJust as God-in-Christ suffered death so we all could be welcome in the kingdom of Heaven, so we should heed the New Testament when it stresses the necessity to show hospitality to strangers...
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“There is much about my life as a Baptist that has enriched my life as a Catholic”Eric BlakebroughTHE PREACHING and the administration of baptism in Baptist churches are based on Scripture...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘Catholics in America are extraordinarily complacent about health care’ Phil McCarthy‘Modern medicine can alleviate some suffering but cannot change the human condition’
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Books and arts
Supremacy of the pickaxe Free
The Roman Forum
David Watkin
How well do you really know the Roman Forum? Not as well as you think, if you have been relying on conventional guidebooks. There are trick questions architectural historians ask ... |
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Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti
The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ... 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 ...
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