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The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 6 May 2008 | comment 25

The crimes of Josef Fritzl cannot be explained within our normal secularist assumptions about the world.

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Pope Benedict at the UN: a moral grammar of rights

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 26 Apr 2008 | comment 6

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the pope offers an interpretive key.

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Polygamy by any other name

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 Apr 2008 | comment 12

A religious sect is being prosecuted for under-age sex and marriage. A lot of other people should be feeling uncomfortable.

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Pope Benedict on marriage: key to world peace

Maggie Gallagher | 15 Apr 2008 | comment 8

As the Pope begins his visit to the United States there is one topic he is certain to speak on.

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Pope to find US Protestants more receptive

Gerald R. McDermott | 11 Apr 2008 | comment 26

Benedict XVI will be welcomed by many American Protestants when he visits the US next week.

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The donut of liberal history

Martin Fitzgerald | 4 Apr 2008 | comment 6

In a new book about the evolution of liberty in the West, 1500 years of Christian civilisation counts for nothing.

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Are secularism and Islam cousins?

Richard Bastien | 26 Mar 2008 | comment 8

However different they may appear, in many vital features these two systems have much in common

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Freedom of religion or freedom from religion?

Michael McGann | 25 Mar 2008 | comment 11

European disputes over head scarves and turbans in public schools hardly exist in the United States. Here’s why.

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Is littering the sin of the century?

Michael Cook | 21 Mar 2008 | comment 9

There were raised eyebrows around the world when newspapers reported that the Vatican had updated the seven deadly sins.

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International Women’s Day: Recovering a sense of women’s dignity

Helen Alvare | 6 Mar 2008 | comment 2

In the name of freedom women have connived in reducing their sex to a consumer object. It is time to look for a new path to liberation.

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