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John CornwellAn epidemic of avian flu could potentially claim at least 50,000 British lives. If it does strike, it will reveal much about our contemporary attitudes to mortality and our capacity for altruism Free
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| Justice and the trial of Saddam Free
THE OPENING OF the trial of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, though the realisation of many an Iraqi?s dream, is a moment of some danger to the cause of human rights and honest justice. It is easy for those who have won a victory to put on trial those ... | |
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Features
Nourished by the presence of Christ Free Alban McCoyThe Church is marking 2005 as the Year of the Eucharist, and the Synod in Rome took that subject as its theme. Yet many Catholics still find Church teaching on the Eucharist difficult. Here, the author of An Intelligent Person?s Guide to Catholicism offers an explanation ...
| Memories stirred from the deepElena CurtiThe drowning of two young girls lies at the heart of Rock Me Gently, Judith Kelly?s account of life at an orphanage run by nuns in the 1950s. But did the accident happen exactly as she describes? Some of her contemporaries remember it differently....
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Healing across the religious divideNathan JeffayTel Aviv?s interfaith hospital, the brainchild of a rabbi whose family was killed in the Holocaust, bridges the religious and racial barriers with an approach to care that focuses not only on the body, but also on healing shattered spirits...
| Common ground with the chosen peopleEdward KesslerIn the fortieth anniversary year of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican document that began a new era in church attitudes towards Judaism, a Jewish scholar examines the implications of the fact that God does not ?revoke? his calls...
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A kind of moral geniusMark LawsonHarold Pinter rejects religion, insisting on the secularity of his characters. But this year?s Nobel laureate for literature remains a profoundly ethical playwright...
| Paradise lostSusan HegedusThis half-term, leafy Center Parcs will be popular destinations for families. Many of them would be surprised by the vision of its Catholic founder...
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To Mass, with sunglassed bodyguardsBasil LoftusFlexibility is the key to the best liturgy, and the best liturgy is pastoral. But a priest?s patience can be sorely tried ......
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Columnists
Madeleine Bunting ?The bill would send out a powerful message of the illegitimacy of hatred? Ann Wroe ?From rowdy Sicily, I have brought home a memento not of noise, but of stillness?
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Books and arts
The idolatry of nationhood Free
Earthly Powers: religion and politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War
Michael Burleigh
In The Radetsky March, his novel of 1932, Joseph Roth wrote: “People no longer believe in God. The new religion is nationalism.” The chief theme among many touched on in this ... |
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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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