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Editorial
Catholicism?s pride and shame The risks of exam reform Columns
Se?n Donlon
Ireland?s top players Nicholas Pyke
?The isolated existence of the autistic sheds light on the idea of masculinity? Margaret Hebblethwaite
?Martyrdom is not romantic. It is sickening, disgusting, horrible? Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
Notebook The Living Spirit The Living Spirit Letters Classifieds 
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?I?m a witness, pure and simple?
The Tablet Interview Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known American nun when Dead Man Walking, her book on the guilty of death row, became a best-seller. She talks to Mian Ridge about her new campaign: to save the innocent
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Featured Articles
My enemy?s enemy ?
Nicholas Jubber
Syria and Iran?s new-found accord is unexpected but crucial to both regimes as they seek to influence the Middle East?s rapidly changing political climate The fox and the hedgehog
Letter from Whitehall
Peter Hennessy
With a general election just around the corner, MPs will increasingly be focusing on single issues. These are political animals who like big vote-winning ideas ?Depart from me, Satan?
David Willey
On the day two people were jailed in Italy for a murder involving satanic rites, a new Vatican-approved course begins for exorcists, reflecting new concern about evil Liturgy that brings grace in abundance
Year of the Eucharist ? 3
James Leachman
Mass is not a place for personal piety, or for an audience of spectators. The third part of our series examines how the Church has slowly adapted to help the faithful develop an active participation in a Eucharist celebrated by the Christian community Sound and fury
Sue Gaisford
The BBC?s broadcast Thought for the Day is supposed to be a reflective moment. It has an ability to inspire listeners, but, as happened recently, outrage them too The price we pay for love
Travelling Light
Daniel O?Leary
When we dare to encounter others, we risk pain. But it is through our strongest emotions and most intimate feelings that we can truly come close to God Homes for new lives
Richard Abbott
Many couples are delaying a family because they can?t afford to buy a place of their own. Now churches are getting involved in putting that injustice right The crowning with thorns
The Passion ? 3
Michael Symmons Roberts
Where faith can bloom
PARISH PRACTICE
Clare Watkins
How can those involved in church catechesis work successfully with parents to ensure a child?s formation? Making sense of Mars
Across the Universe
Guy Consolmagno
Arts
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Cinema
HEAD-ON
Crispin Jackson
Main
A Walk through Town, Divine Encounters in Soho
Brendan McCarthy
Radio
Progress? What Progress?
D.J. Taylor
Television
Cherished
John Morrish
Theatre
Don Carlos
Mark Lawson
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News from Britain and Ireland Williams tries to hold Church together Book Reviews When faith and art were one
Becket’s Crown: art and imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300
Paul Binski
Reviewed by Christopher de Hamel
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