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Church in the World
Pope challenges United States on Middle East 
Argentina
Rape victim at centre of abortion row | | Australia
Aborigines ?reclaim? church | China
Crowds throng to funeral of Chinese bishop | | Congo
Elections give hope for fresh start | Germany
Divisions over funding for stem-cell research | | Honduras
Reprimand for campaigner | India
Church warns over convert law protest | | Philippines
Bishop lambasts ?beer and cigarettes? economy | Spain
Theologians blamed for confusing the faithful | | Uganda
Talks raise peace hopes | United States
Cardinal has cancer op | |
Featured Articles
Search for truth and poetry
Arthur Roche
A new translation of the Order of Mass into English from the Latin text has been a lengthy and sometimes controversial process. The challenge for the International Committee on English in the Liturgy, the body charged with the task of translation, has been to provide a version that is solemn and profound, yet, as its chairman reports here, accessible as well
War without end
Robert Fox
Theorists of today?s conflicts may be mistaken to think in terms of a ?clash of civilisations?. Closer to the mark are the ideas of two writers who focus on the communal nature of modern warfare 
Forgotten
Najla Chahda
With many left behind by fleeing wealthy employers, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Ethiopians and others are now stuck in the war zones of Lebanon, their only route out being the dangerous road to Damascus
From Chelsea to Lindisfarne
FAITH AND FLOWERS - 1
In the first in our summer series on gardens and their connections with religious belief, Richard Abbott visits an award-winning garden that has been re-created on Holy Island Outing a secret shame
James McMillan
In 1999 Scotland?s leading composer compared his country to Northern Ireland ?without the guns?. Seven years on and with a skin considerably thickened by critical barbs, he says he is inspired by the reconciliation of the Catholic and Protestant sides of his own family to see an end to sectarianism 
It might be flexible, but is it a friend?
BUSINESS ETHICS & ETHICAL INVESTMENT
Tim sharp
Charity credit cards may assuage the guilt of our spending sprees, but may well not be the most effective way of donating to good causes
The Church must mind its business
BUSINESS ETHICS & ETHICAL INVESTMENT
Thomas J. Healey
While the commercial world can benefit from ethical advice, the Church can benefit from commerce, especially if it helps to make it more accountable, as a group of senior business advisers have pointed out in the US Moral money-making
BUSINESS ETHICS & ETHICAL INVESTMENT
Katie Gordon
Some 6 per cent of all the world?s assets are held directly by faith organisations, with their congregations holding even more. Think of the consequences if ethical criteria lay behind all that investment A catholic approach to lending
BUSINESS ETHICS & ETHICAL INVESTMENT
Annie Shaw
Financial institutions usually lend according to fairly strict criteria for ascertaining the creditworthiness of the borrower. But there is at least one building society that lends according to need, as well as ability to repay. And it is still in business after 40 years Show us the splendour
LISTEN TO THE WORD
The Feast of the Transfiguration may have had martial origins, but in the opening prayer this week, the language of royal glory has been replaced by a hope that God will make us worthy to share in Christ?s eternal life. Daniel McCarthy examines the translation and explains its background Usefulness of partnership
PARISH PRACTICE
John Mulligan
A pastoral council not only helps the work of the priest but gives every member of the congregation a personal stake in the parish In memory of a martyr
FEASTS AND FOOD
Rose Prince
News from Britain and Ireland Bishops urge Amnesty not to change abortion message More home news Book Reviews Ironies at the heart of Islam
The Caged Virgin: a Muslim woman’s cry for reason
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reviewed by Isabella Thomas
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