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THIS IS NOT a moment to despair about the state of Britain?s race relations. They have been under strain, certainly, since it emerged that the four suicide bombings in London on 7 July were committed by young men from the British Muslim community. ... | |
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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
God?s chance creation Free George CoyneCardinal Christoph Sch?nborn claims random evolution is incompatible with belief in a creator God. Here, in an exclusive rebuttal of that view, the Vatican?s chief astronomer says that science reflects God?s infinite purpose...
| Luck, skill and the comeback PMJulia LangdonTony Blair, the leader who won the election despite himself, has been transformed by recent events and his response to them. As he considers life beyond No 10, could he prove that not all political careers end in failure?...
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The conundrum of dialogueIan MarkhamRelativists and evangelicals puzzle even the most liberal of Muslims. So how to solve the pressing problem of mutual understanding? The answer, says Hartford Seminary?s Dean, may well lie with conservative Christians...
| ? And an answer to warBrighde VallelyIn a dysfunctional society scarred by division, only a Bill of Rights guaranteeing that everyone in Northern Ireland matters equally could heal the wounds of strife...
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Single of this parishTerry Eagleton ?Bachelors?, gay or otherwise, and ?spinsters?, young or old, are to be no more. The Registrar General has decreed that all the unwed are to be simply ?single?...
| A way amid the mountainsRichard AbbottIn the first of a new summer series, Richard Abbott visits Rydal Hall, a Lake District retreat centre set in Edwardian gardens created as a route to God...
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The greatest challenge yetStephen GraubardWashington and London pursued the war with Iraq as a response to terror. A far more imaginative solution to this threat is required of the Great Powers...
| A question of peace...Terence O?KeeffeWhile the IRA?s end to ?armed conflict? is a profound step forward, there is still far to go on Northern Ireland?s rocky road to the end of violence...
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Columnists
Libby Purves ?Our leaders believe the shining clingfilm of religion will cover every social crack? Clifford Longley ?For Jews everywhere, Israel is a life-raft of security and salvation?
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Books and arts
Poet’s exile in an island Eden Free
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
Ed. Archie Bevan and Brian Murray
The poet George Mackay Brown would sometimes pop into my flat in Edinburgh for breakfast before he caught the coach back north. He was a shy, soft-spoken, frail, mop-headed creature, ... |
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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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