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Timely Reminders
Nicholas King
Calls to prayer in Europe were once associated with the bells of churches. Today, the cry of the muezzin is increasingly familiar and in Oxford a row has erupted over a bid by the city’s mosque to broadcast the call. Could it be just the wake-up call people need?
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Church in the World
Pope orders change in Tridentine prayer for Jews
Kenya
Cardinal’s comments ‘endangered priests’ | | Netherlands
Theologian gives support to rebuked Dominicans | Pakistan
Chapels for Christians in prison | | Philippines
Arroyo in clash over Vatican ambassador | Rome
Martini warns Synod to preserve Council teaching on Scripture | | Spain
Socialists threaten to withhold state aid from Church | Switzerland
Abuse scandals rock Swiss Church | | Turkey
Government hints at ‘new view’ of Christians | United States
Pope’s six days in America | | Vietnam
Vietnamese Church regains nunciature | |
Featured Articles
Latin vote comes alive
Richard Rodriguez
Thirty years ago the then US President Richard Nixon identified his country’s Spanish-speaking people as a political force. Today there are some 40 million Hispanics whose votes are determining not just the presidential candidates, but the winner in this year’s race to the White House 
Repent and renew
Mark Dowd
In a powerful message this week given to MPs as they prepare urgent measures to combat climate change, Lenten observance is promoted as a time to see the world and our lives anew
Witness to a life
Carolyn Butler
Novelist and journalist Angela Lambert, who died last year, was known for her staunchly feminist views. She had been shocked by her daughter’s conversion 22 years earlier, to Catholicism. But as she lay dying, mother and daughter – two very different women – found a spiritual reconciliation 
Truth or security?
Conor Gearty
Currently in the limelight during the controversial inquest into the death of Princess Diana, the ancient practices of coroners’ courts, designed solely to establish facts rather than apportion blame, are under threat from the Government’s new draft anti-terrorism legislation
Death of a salesman
Jason Berry
Once hosted and toasted throughout the Catholic world, the now disgraced priest who raised millions for the Church by selling an ultraorthodox version of Catholicism through the Order he founded was buried this week in Mexico 
Forty days in the desert
Lenten Reflections
Cardinal Basil Hume
What can we learn from the gospel accounts of the devil’s encounter with Christ in the desert? In the second of our series of meditations for Lent, the late Cardinal Basil Hume explains how the three temptations express our need for faith, hope and strength in apparent weakness.
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Fitting offering
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
At the beginning of Lent, we pray that we may be prepared for the offering of our gifts to God. Through participating and yielding, writes Daniel McCarthy, we engage in the transforming gift of ourselves to the Lord Letting go to love the better
Parish Practice
James Leachman
Lent began to develop early on in the Church’s life as a period of prayerful and disciplined solidarity of the clergy and the faithful with those preparing for their baptism at Easter Down by the riverside
From the Vineyard
N. O'Phile
News from Britain and Ireland Connell and Martin at odds over child-abuse investigation More home news Book Reviews To justify the ways of God to man
Milton: poet, pamphleteer and patriot
Anna Beer
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