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Editorial
Damage done to democracy A welcome modest concession  Columns
Tim Hames
?The Fifth Republic has a facade of institutional iron that does not fit with the rusty facts?
Michael McCarthy
?The Church needs to recognise explicitly that climate change is a moral issue?
Mona Siddiqui
?Eradication must be total. There can be no room for just a little bit of discrimination?
Laurence Freeman
?As we walked round it, the mountain, like God, revealed ever-changing perspectives?
Glimpses of Eden
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Has liberation theology had its day?
Tina Beattie
As Aquinas baptised Aristotle, so liberation theologians sought to baptise Marx. While the result was planted among the Church?s grassroots, in today?s climate of human rights a new theology is springing up to express God?s ?preferential love for the poor?
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Church in the World
Vatican intervenes in debate on Italy?s civil-unions law
Argentina
Anti-religious curriculum comes under fire | | Australia
College closes pro-life land deal | Austria
Abortion clinic landlord ?excommunicated? | | Brazil
Gospel sect ?commercialises faith? | Pakistan
Judge rules in favour of Christians | | Paraguay
Bishop ignores Vatican to run for President | Romania
Defector?s claim reignites row over legacy of Pope Pius XII | | United States
Furore over removal of cross | Approval for ethical stem-cell research| |
Featured Articles
Sex and the secular liberal
Conor Gearty
Misunderstanding the depth of post-socialist commitment to equality and diversity, especially that of sexual orientation, was a serious mistake in the Church?s handling of the gay adoption issue, according to a leading Catholic human-rights lawyer Ways to live the good life
Catherine Cowley
Religion, and especially Christianity, has been seen as part of the problem rather than the solution to tackling climate change. But that is to misrepresent the gift and task of ?dominion? over the earth 
New Labour, old prejudice
Paul Donovan
Catholic MPs and ordinary members of the party believe that powerful elements within Labour are becoming hostile to the Church. Such a bias could have serious consequences for the party?s electoral fortunes ? and for Gordon Brown?s desire to do business with the Churches
The Moors? latest sigh
Fernando Cervantes
When Spain?s Muslims asked to be allowed to pray at the cathedral in Cordoba, the request seemed reasonable, given the building?s history.
So what exactly was behind the Spanish bishops? refusal to agree? Winning habits
HALLOWED TURF
Dominic Prince
?It?s in the blood,? says Sr Rita of the Sisters of Charity about her passion for racing. But the real winner, says Dominic Prince, is the hospice to which she is Devoted Flying a kite for freedom
Robert Fox
Unlike Iraq, the international effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan is, in the words of the outgoing British NATO commander, ?winnable?. Many Afghans seem to agree as long as they can draw up the template and do not have it imposed from Washington or London Self-transcending gift
LISTEN TO THE WORD
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy sheds light on the opening prayer for the sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in which the mutual exchange between God and man is implicit on our asking for God?s gift of grace, and offering our cooperation by conducting upright and sincere lives Back to the Bible
PARISH PRACTICE
Adrian B. Smith
Many Catholics? familiarity with Scripture leaves a good deal to be desired. But there
is no reason why this should remain the case, for the Liturgy of the Word offers many opportunities for deepening the spirituality of the congregation A taste of the Ancien R?gime
FROM THE VINEYARD
N. O'Phile
News from Britain and Ireland Westminster approves Masses for homosexuals More home news Book Reviews Pope who has baffled his critics
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his battle with the modern world
David Gibson
Reviewed by John Wilkins
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