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Latest issue: 8 September 2006
Last updated: 12 February 2012

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Silence of liberal America

Ian Markham

President Bush warned the US against a backlash against Islam immediately after the attacks on New York and Washington. But five years on, Muslims find jobs hard to get and suffer abuse and insults as part of their daily routine Free 

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It's time to move on, Mr Blair Free 

Tony Blair must be reflecting ruefully on Enoch Powell's dictum that all political careers end in failure. He has been trying to engineer an end to his own that defied the rule: to go at a moment of his own choosing, basking in the applause of ...

Axing chaplains is folly

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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

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 Columnists

Richard RodriguezRichard Rodriguez

'Since 9/11, right-wing Protestants have wrapped themselves in the flag of Israel'

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Tim HamesTim Hames

'Kofi Annan's manner has been such that one could imagine him as a plausible cardinal'

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 Books and arts

Anglo-Catholic Platitudes Free 
Betjeman
A.N. Wilson

This year's centenary celebrations of John Betjeman's birth pay tribute to a Poet Laureate who wrote several dozen poems arguably as good as any written in English in the ...

       
Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti

The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ...

Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb

According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ...

Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...


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