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Editorial
Labour's failure of conscience  Cream is not just for cats Columns
Clifford Longley
‘People are telling themselves that contraception is not a sin but a necessity’
Christopher Howse’s Presswatch
‘I’m not sure many moral theologians censure test-tube sheep breeding’ Ann Wroe
‘The old clock in the cottage wall should be stopped or slow, under a cushion of hours' Robert Mickens
Letter from Rome 
Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
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Spare the whip
James Macintyre
At least one Catholic Cabinet Minister is threatening to revolt against the Government over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. There is anger that it appears to be violating the long-held principle of allowing a free vote on matters of conscience
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Church in the World
Bishops demand new EU priorities
Austria
Schönborn condemns abortion ruling | | Azerbaijan
First Catholic church for 80 years opened | Iraq
Ransom trebled for Mosul archbishop | | Rome
Pope’s ‘circle’ may study Luther | Serbia
Catholics offer to mediate over Kosovo | | Spain
Church-State rivals exchange courtesies | United States
McCain reaches out to Catholics | | Zimbabwe
WCC to monitor elections | |
Featured Articles
Spain's polarising polls
Julius Purcell
Elections have consolidated a growing ideological divide on the Iberian peninsula as the returned premier prepares to lock horns with the new traditionalist head of the Spanish bishops’ conference 
Whose cells are they anyway?
Jennifer Swift
Under pressure from scientists, the Government looks set to allow human cells to be used to create hybrid embryos without seeking donors’ consent. Such a move means that even a blood sample could be used to create a cloned embryo
Common cause
Conor Gearty
Discussions between the Catholic Church and human-rights activists have often focused on what divides them. But a recent Dublin conference suggested that what they share is crucial
Divided we fall
Mary Colwell and Mark Dowd
Two Catholic environment campaigners respond to Austin Williams’ accusation of ‘creeping Malthusian misanthropy’ in last week’s Tablet and explain why addressing global warming is essential to the survival of humanity 
Where angels gladly tread
Richard Abbott
In the past, Catholics walked labyrinths as part of their Lenten observances, and as an aid to prayer. But the history of these twisting paths is as circuitous and mysterious as the patterns themselves
St Patrik's Day special feature
James Moran, Niall Coll
Ireland in the heart of England - Order on the front line
Our own betrayal of Christ
Lenten Reflections
Cardinal Basil Hume
As we consider Judas’ betrayal of Jesus it can be tempting to focus on the failings of others. In this meditation for Holy Week, the late Cardinal Basil Hume reminds us that Christ died not just because of the sin of Judas but because of the sin of the whole world.
Through Passion to glory
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
We cannot be reconciled to God by our own efforts. But, as Daniel McCarthy explains, through the Incarnation, Christ’s death, and his enthronement
‘at the right hand of God’, humanity is enabled to share in divine life
A time to be born
Parish Practice
James Leachman
In the past 1,000 years the Pauline imagery of death and resurrection has dominated the liturgy associated with baptism. But the early Church placed a much stronger emphasis on birth and rebirth – right down to the feminine form of the font As drunk as a wheelbarrow
The language game
John Morrish
News from Britain and Ireland Faith schools under fire on admissions More home news Book Reviews Road to a precarious peace
Ireland: the politics of enmity 1789-2006
Paul Bew
Reviewed by David Goodall
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