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Victoria CombeThe HIV-Aids medical battle can claim some success against the virus, but the efforts of campaigners are hampered by another enemy: the stigma of the disease. Now an international charity has enlisted Churches to help change social attitudes, particularly in Africa Free
From the editor’s desk
| This island now Free The recent ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and first steps towards its implementation were a major step forward in the development of the European Union. And what is good for the EU should be good for Britain. But where were the celebrations, the ... | Ecumenical ironies |
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Features
 Europe’s idealistic realistJan De VolderHe is a poet, a blogger and a devout Catholic who goes on regular monastic retreats. But the first permanent President-elect of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, is also a shrewd
political operator who has resolved seemingly intractable problems in his home country... |  A gender divide - or not?Rowan WilliamsSpeaking in Rome last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury
argued that women’s ordination – the cause of much of the disaffection within the Church of England – may not be such a key point of division as it is portrayed by the Catholic Church and traditionalist Anglicans... |
First run, then walkDaniel McCarthyJust as reflecting on the readings of the Sunday Eucharist prepares us for its celebration, so reflecting on the prayers proper to each Sunday prepares us for the sacramental encounter that we take with us into our daily lives, as Daniel McCarthy shows in his latest series...
| Live and let liveDavid Albert JonesCatholic bishops in England and Wales have issued a statement on the Director of Public Prosecutions’ interim policies on assisted suicide. One of their advisers highlights the flaws in the DPP’s policy as the deadline for further public reaction on it draws near...
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 The worth of othersTerry PhilpotIn the first of a new series of interviews with people whose faith inspires their life in public service, Terry Philpot talks to Nick Johnson, chief executive of the Social Care Association, about vocations, volunteering and the Virgin... | No time for noveltyBernard CotterIn a world that is always on the lookout for the next new thing, there is a danger
that such an obsession could feed into our celebration of Advent and Christmas. This would be a mistake: what is needed is the deepening of traditions...
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As year succeeds to yearVivian BolandTomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent, and in the first of a series of reflections to mark the season, Vivian Boland considers the cycle of the seasons and the symbolism of the wreath...
| Maria Boulding OSBPhilippa EdwardsIn a television interview not long before she died on 11 November, Sr Maria was questioned about the hardness of the monastic life. “Nothing is hard if you are in love,” she said....
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Books of the yearThe Tablet’s reviewers on the
books that have inspired,
informed and entertained
them in 2009...
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| Glimpses of EdenJonathan Tulloch
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Columnists
Clifford Longley ‘Why are atheists so passionate, and indeed so irrational? One meets closed minds' Peter Stanford'The planet can't sustain more pooches. It's a tough lesson for the junior Wave-goers'
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Books and arts
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Midsummer Nights
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson cajoled the cream of her contemporaries into contributing original stories, loosely - very loosely, sometimes - based on the plots of grand operas. The result ... |
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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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