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The 400th anniversary of the King James Bible exposes the banality of the version we are stuck with

Do we really have to continue reading the tone-deaf, flat-footed Jerusalem Bible at Mass?

Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/01/11

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Despite earlier misgivings, Pope invites religious leaders to Assisi

Event will mark 25th anniversary of historic meeting led by John Paul II

Is a new departure in Christian-Muslim relations unfolding in Egypt, this Orthodox Christmas Day?

Certainly something very striking is going on: are there here, really, reasons for hope?

Debate: Should married former Anglicans be allowed to become priests?

As an ordinariate looks set to be established by next week, the debate about married priests reopens

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Shakespeare did write Lear; what is more, he was a Catholic

Sir Derek Jacobi is wrong to think that Shakespeare could not have written his own plays; the greatest poet and dramatist of all times was an Englishman and a Catholic

Francis Phillips

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/01/10

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Ten stories that are likely to define the coming year

The Catholic Herald predicts the big stories of 2011

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/01/11

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

The nobleman who bore paralysis with great cheerfulness

St Benedict Biscop (January 12) travelled extensively, and was thus able to introduce the practices of Roman and Frankish Christianity into Northumberland