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  • RELIGION

    The comforting word

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 29 April 2006

    In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.

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  • RELIGION

    Cultural consolidation

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 27 April 2006

    It is a happy accident that brings together in 2005 the anniversaries of three Jesuits who worked in German: Peter Canisius, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner.

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  • RELIGION

    Cable czars

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 25 April 2006

    I always did like the telly more than was good for me—but frequently as I churn the remote through umpty-five digital cable channels I find nothing that’s any good.

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  • RELIGION

    Flock and key

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 25 April 2006

    To understand theology, you need to attend not only to the tune, but to the key it is played in.

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  • RELIGION

    Future justice

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 25 April 2006

    The challenge for Pope Benedict

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  • RELIGION

    The challenge of reconciliation

    • Jeremy Clarke
    • 25 April 2006

    If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks

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  • RELIGION

    When the walls come down

    • Richard Rymarz
    • 24 April 2006

    A reflection on contemporary Christianity

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  • RELIGION

    Hallelujah haka

    • Peter Matheson
    • 23 April 2006

    Kiwis flocking to a new destiny

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  • RELIGION

    One last stand

    • Anthony Ham
    • 23 April 2006

    Spain’s Catholics take to the streets

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  • RELIGION

    A new understanding

    • James McEvoy
    • 23 April 2006

    Forty years ago, Vatican II promulgated one of its last documents: the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Many have said that it was too optimistic about modernity.

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  • RELIGION

    The voice of the Vatican

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 23 April 2006

    Bruce Duncan summarises the major statements of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

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  • RELIGION

    Servant of silence

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 21 April 2006

    Theology dances awkwardly with silence. The natural business of theology is to put together words about God. But the better the words, the more clearly inadequate they are to their subject and the sooner they run out into silence. 

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