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Columnists

Private spheres, public squares

Paul Vallely

Delete the Pope. Insert yourself. Delete Catholic. Insert Christian. Then consider the following. Benedict XVI on his trip to the United States pronounced: 'Cultivating a Catholic identity … is based not so much on externals as on a way of thinking and acting'.

Self-evident? You might think so, but not according to the received wisdom in contemporary secularism. In much of our ...

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