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| Our common humanity precedes our religious differences |
| 12/3/2010 |
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Jos in Nigeria where this week hundreds of people were killed in the latest outburst of sectarian violence, itself apparently a reprisal against an earlier wave of killings in January this year.
The facts are far from clear, but they fit a pattern that has become all too familiar in the post cold war world, in the Balkans, Sudan, the Middle East, and many other places. It begins with a conflict that has nothing to do... |
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| The common good |
| 5/3/2010 |
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On Wednesday this week the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales issued a document called “Choosing the common good.” And it’s interesting, because at a time when our minds are focused on the general election, which can’t be far away, it speaks about the things that aren’t decided by elections, that can’t be legislated by governments, and yet they affect the very tone and texture of society and the quality of people’s lives.
Things like trust and compassion and generosity;... |
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| Faith in God after the Holocaust may be hard; but faith in humanity is harder still |
| 30/1/2010 |
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Today is National Holocaust Memorial Day, and this year the focus will be on one small group of people in the Warsaw ghetto and the astonishing task they took on themselves for the sake of future generations.
The Warsaw ghetto into which hundreds of thousands of Jews were herded was not some remote spot far from public gaze. It was near the centre of one of Europe’s capital cities. There 100,000 Jews died of starvation and disease. 270,000 were taken in cattle trucks to Treblinka ... |
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