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Francis X. Clooney.-V. GANESAN

Virtual assaults

IN July 2005, when Jesuit Fr. Francis X. Clooney was preparing to travel to India, someone forwarded him a mail circulating on the Internet. It was ab
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Christoph Cardinal Sch?nborn.-DIETER NAGL/AFP Christoph Cardinal Sch�nborn.

A debate revived

A high-profile Cardinal re-ignites the controversy about the Catholic Church's position on Darwinian evolution, thought to have been settled by path-b
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Pope John Paul II.-VINCENZO PINTO/REUTERS

For a fruitful concord

THE theological premise of Christoph Cardinal Schnborn's article is simple - Christianity cannot accept the concept of a universe without an active, p
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Fr. Thomas J. Reese. A file picture.-PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY: AMERICA

Signs of the times

The resignation of the editor of a New York-based Jesuit journal, under pressure from the Vatican, raises questions about the future of free debate wi
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Understanding Benedict XVI

The elevation of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the theologian and "trusted friend" of the late Pope John Paul II, as the new Pope does not necessarily me
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Pope John Paul II at the Marian shrine in Fatima.-DERRICK CEYRAC/AFP

Women in the papal vision

WHEN his wife died in 1929, Karol Wojtyla senior took nine-year-old Karol junior and his brother Edmund to the Marian shrine of Kalwaria, close to the
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The German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger blesses the coffin of Pope John Paul II during the funeral mass at St Peter's Square in Vatican City on April 8.-PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP

Signs of contradiction

Pope John Paul II leaves a mixed legacy for his flock. Conservatives in the Catholic Church hail him as a defender of the faith, while progressives cr
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A democratic tradition

ECUMENICAL councils, primarily a gathering of Bishops from around the world (ecumene in Greek means "whole inhabited earth") convened to discuss doctr
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Faith seeking freedom

My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs by Hans kng; Continuum; pages 544, 25.
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Murder as state policy

The right-wing Likud regime of Ariel Sharon has intensified and openly justified the policy of "targeted killings" in blatant violation of all relevan
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In Ramallah, West Bank, on March 16, Palaestinians at a memorial demonstration on the first death anniversay of Rachel Corrie.-MAGNUS JOHNSSON/REUTERS

Remembering Rachel Corrie

The killers of the U.S. citizen-activist in Palestine a year ago continue to remain free thanks to the Bush administration's unwavering support to Isr
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The revolutionary road

Indian Communist Prasthanam: Aadya Pathikar (Indian Communist Movement: The Pioneers) by C. Bhaskaran; Chintha Publishers, Thiruvananthapuram, 2002; p
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