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Editorial
Chance for Poles to think again  Respect, privacy and the press Columns
Tim Hames
?Mr Brown has the chance to recast totally the way that others perceive him?
Nicholas Pyke
?Special education is a battleground on which no one can win?
Lionel Blue
?Needless to say, you couldn?t wear sheitel wigs dancing the black bottom?
Libby Purves
?Parents of children make choices until or unless the child can do it for itself?
Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
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The secret policemen?s bishop
Jonathan Luxmoore
The Polish Church was hit by its most serious crisis since the fall of Communism when the new Archbishop of Warsaw resigned minutes before his planned inaugural Mass, admitting collaboration that he had previously denied.
Only openness and humility can begin to repair the damage
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Church in the World
Church blames ?enemies? for Wielgus fiasco
Australia
Politician accused of pro-life ?bias? | | Austria
Call to avoid sidelining Protestants | Germany
Interreligious guidelines need updating | | Iraq
Chaldeans close Baghdad seminary | Philippines
Islamists killed in gun battle | | Somalia
Bishops condemn countries that arm Somalis | United Kingdom
Tridentine Mass loyalists ?up the ante? | |
Featured Articles
My enemy?s enemy
Ola Tj?rhom
Shared views on the traditional family and sexual ethics have led to alliances between otherwise very different Churches. But the dialogue is faltering between Catholics and Anglicans over these same ethical issues. Where does this leave the goal of Christian unity?
Checked by Jowell
Jane Thynne
A media minister caving in to the Chancellor, and bad publicity from massive celebrity signings and executive pay deals could be behind the corporation?s failure to get its wished-for licence-fee rise. But with an annual income of ?3 billion, it can still face the future without flinching
The hawks? final swoop
Robert Fox
The Bush administration?s strategy of taking control of troublesome areas of Baghdad by sending a ?surge? of troops has the support of only a few committed neocons. But with prospects of success looking grim, the focus of their attention is now shifting to Iran
Thorns in the PM?s side
Anthony Howard
Dr Rowan Williams is not the only archbishop to have irritated Britain?s political leadership in a time of armed conflict. But the variations in church support for governments since the First World War have not always been predictable Troubled path to the ballot box
Isabel de Bertodano
Male Christians, and women of all religions, have much to be afraid of in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism ahead of next week?s polls in Bangladesh, one of the world?s poorest democracies Gossamer across the abyss
Robin Hutt
The Christian faith that unites a family can also impose the most painful separation. Here a Methodist minister remembers his late brother, a Catholic priest, and how, while the two men dreamed of unity, they were separated at the eucharistic heart of the faith On earth and in heaven
LISTEN TO THE WORD
Daniel McCarthy
In our flesh we bear the image of Adam but we also bear the image of Christ, writes Daniel McCarthy. This Sunday?s opening prayer, acknowledging God as ruler of heavenly and earthly
realities, bears witness to our divine creation and also to our divine recreation Rite of passage
PARISH PRACTICE
Veronica Robbins
Initiation into Catholicism can be a lonely business for the catechumenate, and support is vital A wine by any other name
FROM THE VINEYARD
N. O?Phile
News from Britain and Ireland Christians fail to halt gay regulations More home news Book Reviews Origins of a modern virus
Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations
Martin Goodman
Reviewed by Paul Johnson
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