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Jonathan LuxmooreThe dramatic collapse of Communism has been extensively analysed, but recent accounts have notably ignored the significant role played by the Churches, and in particular the contribution made by John Paul II in uniting people peacefully around a common objective
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| A year of abundant promise Free Bernard Longley’s enthronement as Archbishop of Birmingham in St Chad’s Cathedral in that city on Tuesday, marks the start of a liturgical year that could prove momentous. His appointment, coming so soon after that of Archbishop Vincent ... | Hard road back to solvency |
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 Discreet charm of the nuncioElena CurtiThe Pope’s envoy to Britian, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, is embarking on the search for his third archbishop following the resignation of the incumbent at Southwark. On the fifth anniversary of his appointment to his current post, Archbishop Sainz finds himself busier than ever
... |  Where peace is a long time comingEdward Mortimer and Steve AlstonThe end of the war with the Tamil Tigers left the Government of Sri Lanka with urgent obligations regarding the needs and human rights of civilians. But it is still a long way from even beginning to meet them, despite pressure from international agencies and faith organisations... |
Hidden in our midstDaniel McCarthyAs John the Baptist in this Sunday’s Gospel points to Christ about to come yet already here, Daniel McCarthy explains, so the preface names the company of witnesses preparing for Christ, who in turn prepares us and comes to find the liturgical assembly already celebrating his mystery...
| Conference on the TrinityLewis AyresAt a conference in Durham last month, leading theologians grappled with the Catholic theology of the Trinity, both from a historical perspective and as a way of deepening our understanding
of God’s action in Christ. The debate was not only lively, it opened new channels of thought...
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 Our world, our future Luke HughesLast week 164 young people from 44 countries gathered in Copenhagen for Unicef’s Children’s Climate Forum. Here, one of the four UK delegates to the forum gives a young person’s perspective on climate change and its impact on the planet he will inherit... | Youthful valuesJan SzemerenyiYoung people bring an enthusiasm to the work of the Church, especially in the areas of social justice and help for those in need, that can be priceless. But motivation is all, and it is essential to understand what helps and what hinders in this regard...
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 Sense of communityTerry PhilpotA father fired by the Gospel’s social mission plus a vibrant parish were instrumental in Andy Haines’ determination to harness the power of communities to help those most in need, as he explains to Terry Philpot... | Striking a chord with traditionSimon Scott PlummerThere are few are more enthusiastic for plainchant that Mgr Pablo Colino, emeritus chapel master of St Peter’s Basilica. In London to promote a new CD featuring the voice of Pope Benedict XVI he was in fine voice himself
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 Ripeness is allVivian Boland OPFor the Third Sunday of Advent, Vivian Boland invites us to consider the connection
between grace and good timing, and how our appreciation of grace helps us to see what sin is ... |
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘The Commonwealth is no longer an Anglo-Saxon or Protestant club’  Nicholas Pyke‘The German workers used calculations that would flummox their British counterparts’
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Bruce Gordon
The five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (1509-64), whom Bruce Gordon in this masterful biography hails as “the greatest Protestant reformer of the sixteenth ... |
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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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