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George GelberCritics of this summer?s crusade to combat poverty in the South say that upping aid budgets is throwing good money after bad. Not so, says Cafod?s policy expert. Aid, debt relief and trade justice work and work well Free
From the editor’s desk
| Slacken the reins of the CDF Free
The new head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith said in his first major statement concerning his new job that he saw it as ?helping the Church see how beautiful and wonderful God?s love is?. If that becomes the tone with which the ... | |
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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 ... |
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Features
That they may be one Free Victoria CombeThe monks at the newly established Holy Cross monastery in County Down aim to break down the barriers between the Catholics and Protestants of Northern Ireland through special retreats of reconciliation...
| Advance, don?t retreatStephen WallThe European project is still a valid one despite the referendum setbacks, writes Tony Blair?s former adviser on the EU. Just don?t call the next treaty a constitution...
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Church?s best-kept secretThe Tablet Interview Cardinal Renato MartinoJohn Paul II gave the task of compiling a guide to social doctrine to Cardinal Renato Martino who spoke to Philip Crispin at the launch of the English version...
| On foot to JerusalemMichael HirstFor James Carty, a successful City career beckoned. Instead he has turned his talents, and his feet, to a 3,500-mile pilgrimage from London to the Holy Land...
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Hope on the NileJohn AshworthWhile famine and war ravage the western Darfur region, in Sudan?s southern provinces the guns are now silent. Change is coming to this part of Africa...
| Basil and the bombAnthony HowardThough Cardinal Hume was no unilateralist, his support never wavered for Mgr Bruce Kent, the leader of CND, whom he counted a friend to his dying day...
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Penitent?s progressSalvador RyanMedieval pilgrimages were often for the expiation of sins. With its 3,000 wells, Ireland offered many destinations for those who could not travel far...
| The miracles manTerry PhilpotPatrick Theillier is the doctor charged with investigating cures at Lourdes. But another, profound healing happens in the Pyrenean town, he says...
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At a celestial altitudeRobert HowatsonThe Tablet asked a non-believer to try out The Catholic Experience at a friary in Wales and see what he might gain from it...
| No need for the AstroturfDaniel McCarthyOne American community discovered how liturgy helps us confront death, rather than mask the grave?s reality...
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Columnists
Clifford Longley ?The bishops saw the role of the laity as being simply to pay, pray and obey? Margaret Hebblethwaite ?I will never again be rude to airport porters. And I will tip them more?
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Books and arts
A challenge to justice Free
The Death of Innocents: an eyewitness account of wrongful executions
Sister Helen Prejean
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years, I have endeavored – indeed, I have struggled – along with a majority of this ... |
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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 ... The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor
"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...
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