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Nicolas KennedyCatholic schools were set up in Britain to educate Catholic children, but with rolls falling in ethnically diverse areas, some now teach more Muslim than Christian, let alone Catholic, children. One way forward, it is argued, is to reorientate them as missionary schools Free
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| An offer israel can’t refuse Free It is a toss-up which issue will prove the tougher for President Barack Obama – United States health-care reform or West Bank settlements. Every United States administration since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war has acknowledged that Israeli settlements ... | The old rite put in its place Free One of Pope Benedict XVI’s most controversial initiatives has been his promotion of the Tridentine Rite of Mass as an alternative to the revised rite that reflects the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, newly installed ... |
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Features
‘Last days in the company of chosen companions in familiar surroundings and with some assurance of tranquillity is an alternative worth pondering’ Free Joyce PrinceSUFFERERS OF motor neuron disease feature prominently among the 100 or so Britons who have travelled to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland to end their lives, writes Joyce Prince. The first Briton to go publicly to Dignitas to commit suicide, Reginald Crew, had the disease and died there in 2003. Another sufferer, Craig Ewert, who died at the clinic three years later, allowed his death to be filmed for a television documentary....
|  Sleepwalking into euthanasia Free David Albert JonesWhile not changing the law, last week’s judgment on the Purdy case gives a fillip to the euthanasia movement. Here, a professor of bioethics warns that it should be a wake-up up call to opponents of assisted suicide, as legislation could find its way onto the statute books by stealth... |
 An eye for the big picture Free Victoria CombeWestminster Abbey has plans for an ambitious addition to the roofline. It’s all the work of the current dean, John Hall, who tells Victoria Combe he also wants to improve the abbey’s welcome for visitors and enhance its role as a house of prayer... |  King Arthur’s Lady of the Well Free Richard AbbottFor a time it was used as a cattle trough, but once again pilgrims are visiting a medieval holy well in the Scottish Borders. Part two of our summer series takes us to Our Lady of Wedale, whose church once boasted a statue brought from Asia Minor... |
 Hard lines of the hill tops Free Anshel PfefferAmerica has called for a building freeze on all settlements on land snatched during the Six Day War. But the settlers continue to move in, to the fury of the Palestinians and the frustration of those Americans and Israelis hoping for a lasting peace... | Through the course of life Free Daniel McCarthyThe sacraments, especially the Eucharist, help us to reflect upon and interpret the whole of our lives and therein, writes Daniel McCarthy, to find the experience of communion with God, with whom we can have no direct knowledge, mediated in ordinary and daily ways...
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Too much for a single law officer Free Conor GeartyThe Purdy case exposes the peculiar way that England and Welsh laws can be made or changed. If the Suicide Act is to be amended, it is a job for Parliament to debate and to vote on, and not for the Director of Public Prosecutions to pronounce on ...
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Columnists
 David Blair‘Sudan’s rulers have a vital interest in preventing the south from breaking away’  Christopher Howse‘Pagans in prison are allowed a hoodless robe, a flexible twig, incense and “rune stones”’
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Books and arts
What real freedom means Free
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
This is an optimistic and cheering book. We humans could have been incapable of sympathy, indifferent to the pain and degradation of others and unable to deliberate, reason and agree. ... |
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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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