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The unkindest cut
Matthew Cresswell
Amid accusations that the Archbishop of Canterbury is failing to act robustly enough over homosexuality and the ordination of women bishops, the newly formed Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) is threatening to disrupt this month's Lambeth gathering
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Church in the World
US conservatives appointed head of Vatican's 'supreme court'
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End poverty to build peace, says Pope | Ukraine
Patriarch open to unity with Eastern Catholics | | United Nations
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The heavenly life
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
When we bring the gifts of bread and wine to the altar, and the collection for those in need, we also offer ourselves to God and neighbour, as Daniel McCarthy explains, in a way that may purify us and make us more fit for heaven both here and in the hereafter His hands on earth
Parish Practice
Barbara Kentish
Commitment to justice and peace is not an optional extra for Christians. It is part of the call to holiness and to be followers of Christ. And the work must unite prayer with action 
Keeping faith in the NHS
Jim McManus
Compassion is crucial to caring for the sick, according to research commissioned for the sixtieth birthday of the National Health Service, which also reveals that those most committed to compassionate practice are drawn from the ranks of religious believers
Journey into the dark
Paul Donovan
Dementia is the biggest problem facing the NHS today. Here is one man's experience of how the condition has affected his family's life
'We need a culture of being human'
The Tablet Interview
Peter Stanford
The Vatican has warned the faithful that some of the books of Jon Sobrino could cause them harm. Peter Stanford asked the theologian about Rome's investigation of him, and where he stands today on liberation theology and the 'option for the poor'
On the road to Tarsus
Tom Heneghan
As the year of St Paul gets under way, focus is shifting to the place of his birth, now in modern secular Turkey, where hopes are high that the city's only Christian church could be reinstated for permanent worship in time for the anticipated influx of Pauline pilgrims
Africa's double-edged inheritance
Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor
In the wake of Robert Mugabe's self-proclaimed 're-election' as President of Zimbabwe, a Nigerian professor of theology explains how the continent's ancient cultures, as well as the colonial legacy, have thwarted the growth of human rights and modern leadership
News from Britain and Ireland Church of England steels itself for vote on women bishops More home news Book Reviews Theology's steadfast questioner
Disputed Truth: memoirs II
Hans Küng
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