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Mary’s Mayflowers

SPAIN TEETERS ON THE BRINK

Beset by fast-rising unemployment, the na tion s truggles to offer its young people a future, says Jimmy Burns

Could the increase in numbers training for the priesthood be linked to the country’s economic woes? asks Julius Purcell

Why I took on Cameron Cardinal Keith O’Brien explains his challenge to the Prime Minister over the alleviation of poverty at home and abroad

Mother of all callings Stephen Wang talks to Joanna Moorhead about his new parenting guide

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