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Yes, we have bananas
Abigail Frymann
... and over 2,000 other Fairtrade products, making British consumers among the leading buyers of goods sold under the mark. On Monday the Fairtrade Foundation launches a fortnight of events highlighting the work that guarantees prices for 5 million producers. But there's more to be done
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Church in the World
Anglicans give US Church months to conform
Argentina
Mayoral candidates vie for church approval | | Australia
Drought hits Palm Sunday | Austria
Call for stronger East?West ties | | Germany
Cardinal condemns minister?s adultery | Rome
Pope invites leading Muslim to Vatican | | Russia
?Love thy Orthodox neighbour,? laity urged | United States
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Featured Articles
Winds of change
R. William Franklin
Rather than be split by a much-trumpeted schism, the Anglican Communion emerged from its meeting in Tanzania this week as a new kind of twenty-first-century Church, reflecting changes in ecclesial and geopolitical power
?Through many dangers, toils and snares ...?
Stephen Bates
When Catholic cardinals meet in conclave they tend to do so under the stern eye of God in the Sistine Chapel 
Golden mean of faith schools
Francis Gilbert
Conservative leader David Cameron is the latest politician to say that he wants his child to attend a church school. At a time of growing anxiety about the malaise affecting Britain?s young people, the author of Yob Nation, himself a teacher, examines why these schools work ? not only for the most privileged but the most deprived children
This day forward
Andrew Cameron-Mowat
Critics of liturgical renewal are becoming increasingly vocal in denouncing
post-Vatican II changes. But creativity and genius are part of tradition. Reform within the Roman Rite must remain alive to the signs of the times In Lent we grow by dying
Daniel O'Leary
The search for the real self is central to the Lenten journey. In facing one?s
shadows, one begins to know truly the light of one?s soul. It is a Lenten grace when we are able to hold within us, as Jesus did, the tension of such paradoxes On the edge of slavery
Amanda Hopkinson
A statue to commemorate the end of the slave trade is to be unveiled in Haiti on Monday. Yet the enslaving of hundreds of thousands of children living in abject poverty continues in the Caribbean island state In thought and deed
LISTEN TO THE WORD
Daniel McCarthy
In his examination of the opening prayer for the first Sunday of Lent, Daniel McCarthy points to the Lenten exercises by which we contemplate the mystery of Christ and conduct our daily lives in a way worthy of HiM Lead kindly light
PARISH PRACTICE
Diana Klein
Lent and its culmination in the solemn liturgies of Easter is the most momentous time of the year for adults but, with its violent undercurrents, it can be one of the most difficult for children, whose path can be eased by the use of the narrative power of the gospel stories One fix leads to another
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Guy Consolmagno
With my colleague Dan Britt from the University of Central Florida, for several years I've been measuring the densities and porosities of meteorites.
News from Britain and Ireland Government pledges to boost faith-based welfare services More home news Book Reviews Leaders against the grain
The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: three who changed the world
John O’Sullivan
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