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Editorial
Judicial killing demeans all
Editorial
The strongest argument for the death penalty was the simple invocation of the name of Hitler ? or in more recent days, Saddam Hussein.  What migrants do for us
Editorial Columns
Clifford Longley
?Freedom can easily strangle democracy ? the German people freely elected Hitler?
Christopher Howse?s presswatch
?Tabloids feel specially qualified to assign places in hell to dictators and child murderers?
Laurence Freeman
?Like the stingray by the manger, the question had to be acknowledged?
Michael McCarthy
?We look on the natural world with fascination; the French look on it with appetite?
Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
Rose Prince
Frugal winter feasts
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Led by a flickering star
Gerald O?Collins
The account in Matthew?s gospel of the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem is rich in contrasts, as exploited to spectacular effect in the recent film The Nativity Story. A theologian explores what these tell us about the human manifestation of the divine
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Church in the World
Italy wants global ban on death penalty
Austria
Priest resigns over fathering of child | | Bulgaria
Bulgaria and Romania join EU ?as Christians? | Chile
Cardinal issues warning to Bachelet | | Germany
Church leaders at odds over Enlightenment | Indonesia
Christians to have role in largest Muslim state | | Ukraine
Call to restrain Jehovah?s Witnesses | Venezuela
Ch?vez attack on religious education resisted | |
Featured Articles
A life too burdensome
John Paris
Last month the Italian poet and muscular dystrophy sufferer Piergiorgio Welby was granted his wish when a doctor turned off the ventilator that had been keeping him alive. The Church refused Welby a Catholic funeral. But did this refusal accord with the Church?s teaching on when a person can be allowed to die? The true Nun?s Story
Zoe Fairbairns
Her starring role in The Nun?s Story was one of Audrey Hepburn?s most remarkable performances. Behind that film and the novel on which it was based was a moving true story of vocation, faith and friendship, as a new play reveals Jewels snatched from the liturgical crown
Mike Knowles
For the first time this year, the Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated in England and Wales not on the old established date of 6 January but on the nearest Sunday. It is a decision that some see as the symptom of a Church lacking in confidence Troubleshooter of the North
The Tablet Interview
Robin Eames is stepping down after 20 years as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. His years on the political front line, encouraging communication between Protestants and Catholics, have borne fruit. But, as he tells Chris Ryder, his successor still faces difficult challenges Why I emigrated to Haifa
Irene Lancaster
Driven out of Britain by her perception of increasing anti-Semitism, one of the United Kingdom?s leading Jewish academics has paradoxically found peace in the Israeli city that suffered most from last year?s conflict in Lebanon Our guided journey
LISTEN TO THE WORD
The Magi travelled by the light of faith towards the adoration of the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The prayer for the Epiphany Mass, as Daniel McCarthy shows, expresses the way the path of our own life, illuminated by divine light, approaches the contemplation of the beauty of God The future needs resolve
PARISH PRACTICE
It is necessary to think, talk, organise and plan if the community is to be helped towards a properly Christian sense of itself and towards a more fully Christian way of behaving
News from Britain and Ireland Lord Steel speaks out against ?divisive? Catholic schools More home news Book Reviews Baffled by enigma of sanctity
Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?
Gëzim Alpion
Reviewed by Kathryn Spink
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