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Editorial

A battle that needs blunt words

Plight of Malawi?s children

Columns

Clifford Longley
?How many bloody revolutions have produced good results? Virtually none?

Christopher Howse?s Presswatch
?No moral maze provoked greater interest than Madonna?s adoption of an infant?

Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden

Caught in the crossfire James Macintyre The prospect of greater interference in the running of faith schools is exposing divisions at the heart of Government. Supporters of Catholic schools say they should be left alone, secularists are spoiling for a fight and others are fearful that marginal seats will be lost

Church in the World

Attacks on Pakistani Christians increase

Australia Fisher warns on cloned embryos		Austria Military chaplains face pastoral challenges
Italy ?Snares of secularism? even found in Church, says Pope		Lebanon Patriarchs seek political stability to halt Christian exodus
Poland Solidarity martyr near to beatification		Rome Pope Benedict?s Eid message of peace
Russia Orthodox seek thaw in relations with Greek Catholics		United States Hierarchy urges pastoral approach to gays

Featured Articles

Full-bodied row in Bordeaux
Philip Crispin
The Vatican's establishment of an institute for ex-Lefebvrists in Bordeaux, to operate in parallel with the existing Church, has caused deep anger in France. It is a major challenge to the authority of Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard - and to the Church, shaped by the Second Vatican Council'

A crucial moment for Catholics
FAITH SCHOOLS DEBATE
Vincent Nichols
Proposals for imposing on religious schools quotas of pupils of other faiths or none seems motivated by a political desire to find a solution to divisions in multifaith, multiracial Britain. But the impact on the Catholic community, says the chairman of its education service, would be to put at risk a system of schooling that is successful and more integrated than ministers understand

From Budapest to Berlin
Jonathan Luxmoore
Hungary?s uprising 50 years ago was crushed by the Soviets. But its heroes, including Cardinal J?zsef Mindszenty, sowed the seeds of a rebellion across Eastern Europe

What reason to believe?
THE TABLET INTERVIEW
Catherine Pepinster
John Humphrys, scourge of politicians on the BBC?s Today show, is looking for God. He talks to Catherine Pepinster about his lifelong quest, the impact of tragedy on his beliefs and his new Radio 4 series

Sermon on the mount
HALLOWED TURF
Dominic Prince
Dominic Prince meets Ireland?s unofficial chaplain to the turf, who is minister to what is possibly the country?s most horse-mad congregation

Rising tide of refugees
Isabel de Bertodano
While climate change demands merely a lifestyle change on the part of those living in developed countries, for the millions of impoverished in Bangladesh, the impact of flooding is threatening lives and livelihoods

Once a priest, always a priest
Catherine Pepinster
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O?Connor has reached high office in the Church. But the most important moment of his life was his ordination. As he celebrates the golden jubilee of his priesthood, he reflects on a life rooted in faith and the changes he has witnessed

A not-so-auld alliance
Stephen Breen
Overwhelming Catholic support for the Labour Party has been one of the great constants of politics in Scotland throughout the twentieth century. But as Scots prepare to go to the polls in elections for the Scottish Parliament next year, Labour?s grip on that hitherto loyal constituency has never been weaker

Constant promise
LISTEN TO THE WORD

Loving actions make us worthy of what God has undertaken for us. But, as this week?s opening prayer reveals, we cannot perform these actions without God. Daniel McCarthy explains how our future fulfilment breaks into the present, in a single moment and over the course of our lives

No time like the present
PARISH PRACTICE
Alan Morris
The RCIA is robbed of its effectiveness when it is forced to take place within predetermined dates Alan Morris

Spicy planet stories
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Guy Consolmagno

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The past comes back to haunt us
Sacred Causes: religion and politics from the European dictators to Al Qaeda
Michael Burleigh
Reviewed by Daniel Johnson

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