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Abigail FrymannAfrica has shrunk now that one person in three owns a mobile phone. Already the effect on families, business and even governance has been extraordinary, but the telecommunications revolution has only just begun Free
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| A dangerous numbers game Free The polls tell us that immigration continues to head the list of issues of most concern to the British public. What this means is less clear. There is anxiety about community relations and failure to integrate, particularly with reference to Muslims ... | Good money after bad |
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Features
 Act in haste, repent at leisure Free Michael G. RyanCatholics in most of the English-speaking world will be introduced to a new translation of the Mass over the next 18 months. However more than 10,000 people from 43 countries have joined in a campaign for the text to be given a test run first. Here, the founder of the campaign makes the case... |  The attentive watcherBrian MortonThe Scottish painter Craigie Aitchison, who died on 21 December last year, produced an acclaimed series of paintings of the Crucifixion. Here a friend remembers the artist, whose cryptic comments on his own work pointed to a troubling but enduring engagement with Christ’s Passion... |
Can we live green and prosper?Alex KirbyBritain’s energy supplies have struggled to meet demand in the recent freezing weather, prompting fears of serious shortages against a backdrop of cutting carbon emissions. But some believe the development of new technologies could lead to a green industrial revolution if we act fast enough...
| Painful but cleansingDaniel O'LearyThe moral authority of the Catholic Church in Ireland has been severely compromised by the disclosure of the cover-ups of the widespread abuse of children by clergy. The revelations indicate a much wider problem which Catholics must confront head-on if the Church is to survive and grow...
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Made to govern CreationDaniel McCarthyWe are used to homilists exploring interconnections among the scriptural readings of a given Sunday, but the prayers are interconnected too. Discerning how the prayers assigned to this week are related, writes Daniel McCarthy, reveals how the Lord is at work in the liturgical assembly...
| Come, let us adore himAidan RossiterRather than being an add-on to the life of some parishes, adoration can be integrated into the prayer life of community and priest. Church guidelines on the practice are clear, indicating that the liturgy itself is the starting point and the end point of eucharistic adoration...
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 Top spinningJulia LangdonGordon Brown has been wounded yet again by what seemed like a clumsy coup attempt by former senior ministers last week. But look more closely and one veteran Cabinet member emerges strengthened by the affair and ready to flex his muscles... | Asia’s paradise lostKevin RaffertyChurches have been attacked and demonstrations mounted in the streets of Malaysia against the use of the word “Allah” by local Catholics to describe God, despite a 400-year provenance. But it appears the controversy may be more political than religious...
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Columnists
Catherine Pepinster‘Women who convert speak of Islam’s rigour, simplicity and spirituality’  Ann Wroe‘A footfall is softer than a footstep, more muffled, sinking deeper into the white’
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Books and arts
Bringing Jerusalem to Athens Free
Jewish Philosophy and Western Culture: a modern introduction
Victor J. Seidler
Franz Kafka’s diary entry for 24 October 1911 contains a paradigmatic moment in twentieth-century psycho-social awareness: “Yesterday it occurred to me that I did not ... |
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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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