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Green prayers for a beautiful world
Alex Kirby
Arguing that we need to develop a sense of sin when we offend against the natural world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led his latest interfaith environmental meeting last week in Greenland where the ice is melting at a ?phenomenal' rate
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Featured Articles
To serve and celebrate
Andre Lascaris
Four Dominican theologians have caused a furore in the Dutch Church with their new booklet, arguing that the Church in future will have to allow ?inspired members of the community? to celebrate the Eucharist. Here, one of the authors explains their beliefs about who should preside
Black mark for Gordon
William Keegan
The Government has prided itself on its financial prudence and custodianship of the economy during the last decade. Yet its management of the Northern Rock crisis this week was almost disastrous. What went wrong? What lessons can be learned about how we do business?
Fevered thinking
John Cornwell
Few books in modern times have so divided people as Richard Dawkins? bestseller The God Delusion. But careful reading of the book has identified a disturbing aspect to the biologist?s critique of religion. Here, one of his most trenchant critics deconstructs the attack on religion Devout double agent
Austen Ivereigh
What makes a man live a life of duplicity and how does he come to terms with the chasm between his publicly professed beliefs and his secret degeneracy? A new film not only explores this conundrum but manages to portray Catholicism, and Opus Dei, in an intelligent manner 
Cur? in the Cabinet
The Tablet Interview
Alain Woodrow
His was a controversial appointment as an adviser to France?s new hardline Minister for Housing and Urban Politics. But, as Salesian priest Fr Jean-Marie Petitclerc tells Alain Woodrow, he is just following in the footsteps of Don Bosco, the founder of his order
Look beyond the boundaries
Parish Practice
Paul Hypher
In many dioceses the priest-centred model of the parish will soon no longer be an option. Yet there are huge resources to draw on in terms of the commitment and competence of the laity. The Church must learn to incorporate these more effectively into its structure On Earth as it is in Heaven
Across the Universe
Guy Consolmagno
News from Britain and Ireland Oxford slams Capuchin college More home news Book Reviews Unstilled Human Longings
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr
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