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Beware false promises
Neil Scolding
Just how reliable, asks a leading neuroscientist, are claims made for the research benefits of human-animal hybrid embryos – one of the most controversial elements in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now being debated in the House of Commons?
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Church in the World
Pope says Humanae Vitae is still valid
Australia
Cold shoulder for rebel bishop | | Austria
Glimmer of hope for remarried divorcees | Burma
Million face death as junta holds back aid | | Rome
Vatican ‘shares Anglican concerns’ | Spain
Law to make way for non-Catholic voices | | Sri Lanka
Colombo ‘withholding tsunami aid money’ | United States
Condom promotion fails to cut HIV rates | |
Featured Articles
Care, and a community
Terry Philpot
The Government this week published proposals for funding care for the growing number of elderly people. But Religious are also having to think imaginatively about how they finance the residential care homes they run once they can no longer go it alone
The slumbering monster stirs
Zaki Cooper
On Wednesday the state of Israel, created in the wake of the Holocaust, celebrated its 60th birthday. Yet the anti-Semitism that found its most horrific expression in the Nazi death camps, and was supposed to be ended by the terrible lessons they gave us, is stalking Europe once again To save lives, save face
Kevin Rafferty
Aid agencies and the UN fear that hundreds of thousands of people could have died through the Burmese junta’s stalling of the relief effort following this month’s cyclone. But it is still necessary to humour the leaders if help is to reach the victims 
Spreading the Word
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
In the last in a series of public lectures at Westminster Cathedral, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, called on believers and non-believers to find a basis for dialogue founded on mutual respect and shared values
Windows of wonder
Daniel O’Leary
Contemplation is not a technique to be mastered but a journey inside ourselves to become one with what already is. When we do this and glimpse what is there, it takes our breath away They also serve
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
As they await the Second Coming, the faithful are, as Luke says, like alert slaves awaiting the master’s return. In the Prayer over the Gifts on Trinity Sunday, they ask God to sanctify their service, as Daniel McCarthy explains Out of the great silence
Parish Practice
Nikki Dhillon Keane
Catholic Deaf Awareness Week, 11-18 May, offers a chance to think about the issues faced by deaf people and to consider more deeply what ‘Catholic’ philosophy means Strike a light, comrade
The language game
John Morrish
News from Britain and Ireland Pro-life MPs prepare for battle over abortion More home news Book Reviews Continent’s awkward partnership
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
Stephen Wall
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