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Editorial
The Vatican view of women  A blessing for Britain Columns
Tim Hames
?The Protestant work ethic has become contagious. A Catholic ethic might be better?
Nicholas Pyke
?Examinations officers and ministers claim that the A-level grades are scientific?
Hallowed turf
Tips from the benefactors
Robert Mickens
Letter from Rome 
Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
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Simple as shelling peas
Anthea Rowan
Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, recently returned from a tour of East Africa to reject the view that a country? s traditional culture is a barrier to economic progress. An innovative horticultural project in northern Tanzania supports his point: sustainable economic health in Africa depends on working with local customs and practices
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Church in the World
Revealed: the true role of women in the Vatican
Argentina
Bishop opposes threat to democracy | | Australia
New life in Church, says archbishop | Canada
Fury over Clinton speaking invitation | | Colombia
Rape victim, 11, tests abortion law | Germany
Grass confession should have come sooner, says Lehmann | | Poland
Church rejects calls for death penalty | |
Featured Articles
A time to show the way
Cormac Murphy-O?Connor
Contrary to reports of empty churches and a society that appears to be losing its faith, the current revival of an interest in religion has never been greater as people listen afresh
Just don?t mention abstinence
Peter Kavanagh
In Bangkok two years ago, Catholic thinking on Aids prevention came under persistent attack from activists. In Toronto this month, a similar mood prevailed, although it was possible to detect a deeper realism among some delegates?
Cultivating spirituality
Faith and Flowers ? 4
To walk round the Reflection Gardens in Staffordshire, with their symbolic plants and significant sculptures, is as much to take a spiritual journey as to visit a space where plants grow. Richard Abbott takes a tour of a place where inspiration flowers Solving the nuclear conundrum?s a long haul
Michael Quinlan
In recent months Tablet contributors have debated whether it is right for the United Kingdom to renew its nuclear weapons capability, following the Scottish bishops? opposition. Here, a leading defence expert examines the arguments put forward so far. No approach, he says, comes risk-free And is it true?
Kevin J. Gardner
A hundred years ago this week John Betjeman, one of the most beloved of English poets, was born. While there have been plenty of celebrations of Betjeman as poet and preservationist, less widely studied is the role of faith in his contribution to English national life, a faith often plagued by doubt Hearts and minds freely won
LISTEN TO THE WORD
Daniel McCarthy looks at the opening prayer for the twenty-first Sunday in ordinary time, where the joys and sorrows of our changing world are contrasted with the one
true joy available to us when we learn to desire what God has already promised
Setting the controls
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Guy Consolmagno
News from Britain and Ireland Call for rethink on half-empty seminaries More home news Book Reviews Lament for a vanished world
Seminary Boy
John Cornwell
Reviewed by Eamon Duffy
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