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One is the ruler of a global congregation recently put at nearly 1.2 billion, the other a nominal head of a worldwide communion of some 80 million. Next week, Joseph Ratzinger and Rowan Williams will meet during the papal visit to Britain. There is much to unite these seemingly disparate figures Free

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When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chose his title of Benedict XVI upon his election as Pope in 2005, it was widely seen as imparting a distinctly European mission to his papacy. St Benedict is the patron saint of Europe, the cradle of the Catholic faith. ...

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Secularism - good or bad?
Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views

The two most senior clerics in England and Wales set out on the same day contrasting visions of the threats posed to Christianity by secularism.

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Clare Short: ‘Church gave me best of values that have continued into my political and adult life'
Former Labour minister offers candid and fond reflection on her Catholic upbringing

I've chosen as my theme the link between a Catholic childhood and radical politics. I fear this may be slightly self-indulgent and autobiographical but there are some points ...

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Britain’s 100 top Catholics Free The 100 most influential lay Catholics in British public life EXCLUSIVE ...	‘I was in prison and you visited me’Antony Sutch For some, the final injunction in the call to Christian service in Matthew 25:35-39 is the most challenging. Yet, in the last of our series of meditations in spiritual preparation for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain, a Benedictine says it is fully part of the requirement to reflect God’s love ...
Roots of the Big SocietyAusten Ivereigh Phillip Blond and John Milbank have been responsible for shaping much of the coalition Government’s enthusiasm for community organising and grass-roots activism. They gain inspiration from Catholic Social Teaching and its winds of change wafting in from the Adriatic...	God is dead; long live the eternal GodGuy Consolmagno Stephen Hawking is not the first scientist to declare God obsolete. But his latest findings following his researches into the origins of the universe provoke profound questions about our perceptions of God and the relationship between science and theology ...

Tracing the Brighton lineRoger Moss Much of the research and writing on Cardinal Newman focuses on the priest and academic. Here, the man who now lives in the seaside town house that was once Newman’s home recalls how it helped him discover the thinker, the priest – and the rounded person ...	Unlikely bedfellowsAnthony O’Mahony With Israel’s roots in the religious character of its founding ideology and Turkey’s in an avowedly secular and modernising reaction to religion, an alignment of the two countries may be thought surprising. Yet it has worked for more than 60 years...
In all conscienceJohn Wilkins When Pope Benedict beatifies the great English cardinal on 19 September, what will he make of Newman’s famous after-dinner toast, ‘I will drink to Pope by all means – still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards’?...	Scotland’s ageing faithTom Gallagher Attendance at John Paul II’s Mass in Glasgow in 1982 was bigger than any other on the visit. Far fewer are predicted for Pope Benedict’s Mass on Thursday at the same venue, reflecting a decline in the Catholic population ...
‘The Bible is a good place for Jews and Christians to meet’ Edward Kessler In his five-minute audience, Jewish scholar Edward Kessler would tell Pope Benedict that collaboration between academics to produce joint Christian-Jewish commentaries on the Bible would help mutual understanding ...	Take hold of lifeDaniel McCarthy Fully participating in the sacramental rites, we take the mysteries in hand and are inspired to integrate the faith we profess with our daily practice of love for God and neighbour ...
Something rather than nothing: the scientists who find space for religionEdwin Cartlidge Not all scientists share Stephen Hawking’s view that modern physics makes the Creator redundant, writes Edwin Cartlidge....	Rare, lovely and reasonableN. O'Phile

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‘Benedict’s addresses abroad are conceptual. This is a professor Pope, not a finger-wagger’

Robert Mickens

Letter from Rome

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Confessions of a gambler Free
A Journey
Tony Blair
No wonder Tony Blair wanted to convert to Catholicism. He has a penchant for confession. Only in this case he has escaped the privacy of the ecclesiastical confessional and confessed ...

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