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Inside the mind of militant Islam
Sagarika Ghose
The Taliban have been forced right back in Afghanistan. These militant Muslims have their roots in a huge college in northern India founded in the nineteenth century. A novelist and journalist who lives in New Delhi went inside it.
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Muscular Catholicism
Annabel Miller
Last week, The Tablet?s reporter-at-large met members of the Catholic organisation Opus Dei in England, and heard about the sense of spiritual fulfilment which The siege of Holy Cross
Feidhlimidh Magennis
The peace process in Northern Ireland has to reach down into the local communities. How far there is to go is shown by daily confrontation outside a Catholic primary school in Belfast. Last wee a priest who lectures in St Mary's University College in the city joined the parents and children. THis is his account. Art for God's sake
Brendan McCarthy
For centuries the Christian Churches have been great patrons of art. In the contemporary Western world, however, there is a divide. A former BBC producer has been talking to some Christians who are trying to build a bridge across it. The pleasures of post
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Ann Wroe
Why small schools work
Piers McGrandle
In 1998 Cornwall was left with no Catholic secondary school. A group of parents decided to set their own Catholic school in a private home. Three years on, an assistant of The Tablet went to see whether the experiment had succeeded.
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Margaret Howard
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