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A lucid and valuable achievement Free

The latest agreed statement from the Anglican?Roman Catholic International Commission, ?Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ?, is in sharp contrast to the despondency that seems to have overtaken many ecumenical endeavours in recent years. Here is something ...

Labour, too, must earn our respect Free

The triumphal return of Tony Blair to Parliament this week was somewhat diminished both by Labour?s less than overwhelming victory in the general election and by the fact that both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard, have signalled ...

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Sexual abuse: a multi-faceted response
Cardinal Levada addresses Rome conference

"Toward Healing and Renewal" is the title given to this Symposium for Catholic Bishops and Religious Superiors on the Sexual Abuse of Minors. For leaders in the Church for whom this ...

Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text

The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ...

Features

Making sense of Mary Free Sarah Jane Boss A joint statement by Catholics and Anglican scholars finds a surprising degree of agreement about the role and status of the Virgin Mary. But have they chosen to ignore some thorny issues?...	The Catholic contributor?s view Free Sr Sara Butler
The Anglican contributor?s view Free The Revd Dr Nicholas Sagovsky	Sacks? plaintive melodyThe Tablet Interview Chief Rabbi The Chief Rabbi fears for the secular modern world and its lack of values. But, he tells Catherine Pepinster, there is a route to redemption. It comes in small steps...

A universal pilgrimageDaniel O?Leary Beyond the crowds and kitsch souvenirs, Lourdes is a place where you can hear the voice of God, the same voice that echoes in all the sacred places of this planet...	Benedict?s own enforcerRobert Mickens The new Pope has chosen William Levada as his successor as doctrinal head. This Californian pragmatist is as tough as you would expect a Ratzinger ally to be...
Cause for concernMichael Walsh It took Benedict XVI 26 days to announce John Paul II is on the fast track to sainthood. Is such haste seemly? And should a pope canonise his predecessor?...	The turning pointBrendan McCarthy Tony Burke agreed out of curiosity to take part in the TV series The Monastery. Then, as the last episode reveals, came the moment that changed his life...
More than a rite of passageDiana Klein Confirmation is not just a sign of adulthood, but a completion and strengthening of the sacrament of Baptism...	Naturally enoughJohn Morrish
Hugh MontefioreRichard Harris, Bishop of Oxford

Columnists

Madeleine Bunting

?What we seem to be in danger of losing grasp of is the very idea of civility?

Anne Wroe

?By writing biography, we recast in the world the shadow of a living soul?

Books and arts

New light on a forgotten visionary Free
The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1)
Ed. Jan Ross

There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...

New light on a forgotten visionary Free
The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1)
Ed. Jan Ross

There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...

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