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Editorial
Extraordinary and unacceptable  Forty years on, the principle remains Columns
Clifford Longley
?Justice is about debts that must be paid, not voluntary donations? Laurence Freeman
?It is the powerlessness from which the Dalai Lama speaks that is his authority?
Letter from Rome
Jonatahn Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
Notebook The Living Spirit The Living Spirit Letters Classifieds
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Infinite wonder of the divine
George Coyne
Creationist notions of intelligent design diminish God. Instead we should see his love for the infinitely evolving universe as like that of a parent allowing a growing child to make its own choices and go its own way in life
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God?s sceptical storyteller
The Tablet Interview
Catherine Pepinster
Robert Winston, one of Britain?s best-known fertility doctors, has ventured into new territory with his latest television series and book, this time investigating God. He talks to Catherine Pepinster about doubt, certainty and his conflicts with Catholics Heart of the Council
Gerald O?Collins
On 8 December 1965 the Second Vatican Council came to a close. Ever since then, it has had a profound influence on many aspects of the Church, its governance, its liturgy and its relationship with the world. But its richest legacy is Christ himself Advent reflections
Gerard W. Hughes SJ
The central message from Gerard W. Hughes SJ in the third of our reflections for Advent is about the nature of Christ?s peace and how it differs from how we go about achieving peace in the world today. The lawless skies
Steve Crawshaw
This week, Condoleezza Rice has denied that the CIA has been flying terror suspects to places where torture takes place. But kidnap is nothing new to that organisation When faith and feelings conflict
Civil Partnerships Act
The Civil Partnerships Act, coming into effect this week, will give same-sex couples many of the legal rights of married couples. Here, three gay Catholics reflect on what the move means to them, and how they regard the Church?s attitude to homosexuality Windows on to the soul of the Church
Laura Gascoigne
The sumptuous display of sacred silver and stained glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum?s new gallery highlights old questions about the ethics of ecclesiastical display, but in doing so, presents a dazzling history of church decoration in this country Divided it stands ? just
Alain Woodrow
One hundred years after the formal separation of France?s Church and State, secularisation has come to trouble the government in ways that could not have been foreseen. The Archbishop of Paris describes, opposite, how the notion of la?cit? is holding up today Long live the difference
PARISH PRACTICE
Sheila Keefe
New ways of helping parishes become more welcoming towards families with disabled children are long overdue Just browsing
ON THE NET
Lavinia Byrne
Arts
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Cinema
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Crispin Jackson
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Edward Scissorhands
Mark Lawson
Opera
The Midsummer Marriage
John Amis
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Chicken Inspector No. 23
D.J. Taylor
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The Story of God
john Morrish
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News from Britain and Ireland Cardinal rules out ?gay marriage? for Catholics Book Reviews Modern voice of Victorian doubt
Arthur Hugh Clough: a poet’s life
Anthony Kenny
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