| The other path to Rome Free The apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus has now been published by the Holy See, and no one will read it more avidly than members of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England and Anglicans of similar mind abroad. The Congregation for ... | Take care, Mr Cameron |
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Features
 Very ordinary saintsMichael Campbell-JohnstonOn 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were murdered in El Salvador, a country marked by unrest and extremes of poverty and wealth. Twenty years on, a fellow priest describes how their martyrdom helped pave the way for an end to the brutal civil war ... | For whom the drums beatJonathan TullochAn asylum seeker from Cameroon claimed that his tribe tried to force him to become their chief through torture, and to engage in animist practices rejected by his Catholic faith. Despite the evidence, the Home Office believes he could relocate safely within Cameroon and is determined to send him home...
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 The meaning- seeking animalJonathan SacksIn its deep-seated hostility to religious faith, Europe is an exception in the modern world. Yet history shows it is those cultures that respect faith that survive. Once they embrace hedonism, cynicism and relativism, warns the Chief Rabbi, they put their own future in doubt... | Obama’s challenge from the Dalai Lama Kevin RaffertyThe American President is due to arrive in Shanghai tomorrow on the first leg of his three-day visit to China at the invitation of President Hu Jintao. Economic issues will top the agenda, but it will be hard for Mr Obama to ignore the question of human rights in Tibet...
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Harvest of friendshipAlfred AgiusThe UK’s first Interfaith Week begins on Monday with the hope of encouraging better
understanding and dialogue between faiths. A member of an interfaith group in west London describes what can be done at local level to strengthen links between different faiths...
|  Where power residesRobert MickensThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is behind the plan to admit disaffected Anglicans to the Catholic Church en masse. Down the ages the CDF’s role has altered, but its status today makes it worthy of its old epithet, la Suprema... |
 Earth’s last chanceSean McDonaghFaith leaders are being urged ahead of next month’s Copenhagen summit to play their part in making the world understand the moral imperative to combat climate change, possibly the last chance for action before its effects begin to wreak havoc... | Renew your love lifeDaniel McCarthyIn the prayer for this day, writes Daniel McCarthy, the faithful ask that, through following Christ’s command and receiving his body and blood, they may be changed in their
inclinations, so that they grow ever more vigorous in their charitable endeavour...
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 This curious dispensationMichael WalshThe document Anglicanorum Coetibus, just published by the Vatican, sets out how
Anglo-Catholic parishes can come into the Roman Catholic fold. Here a church commentator examines what might happen when the plans are put into practice... |
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘Free markets rely on social capital but they are not its source and they can easily erode it’  Christopher Howse‘Well, I don’t know about you, but TV vicars make me squirm’
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Books and arts
Trajectory of a literary dynamo Free
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
In the summer of 1862, the 50-year-old Dickens was interviewed in his editorial office at All the Year Round by the 41-year-old Dostoevsky: “surely speaking far more freely”, ... |
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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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