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For those privileged to have experienced education in a Western-model university, Pope Benedict's speech at Regensburg last week was a template of an academic lecture: intellectually challenging, provocative, clarifying some issues while also raising ...

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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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Breadth of the Logos Free Pope Benedict XVI This is the complete text of the Pope?s lecture on the role of reason in religion given at his old University of Regensburg in which he states not to act with reason is contrary to God. The controversial citation from the Byzantine emperor about Islam is but a fragment of the address...	In the spirit of Assisi Free John Borelli Despite the offence taken by some Muslims at the Pope?s lecture on faith and reason, interreligious dialogue, forged by John Paul II 20 years ago in the city of St Francis, will continue to develop and address the concerns and fears of the world?s faithful...
A sacramental journeyJohn Crowley Last month a small group walked from Hull to Middlesbrough on a journey built around the celebration of the seven Sacraments.Here, the Bishop of Middlesbrough describes how the breaking of bread on the journey helped to open the eyes of the pilgrims...	Centre-stage in OttawaPeter Kavanagh Some were surprised when the Pope singled out Canada for criticism over gay unions, abortion and the exclusion of God from public life. But Benedict?s concern is just the latest twist in what many see as the increasing role of religion in the country?s political life...

Instruments of PeaceJonathan Tulloch Under a sumptuous Moorish picture of a Christian and a Muslim playing chess, a Bible and the Qur?an were laid on a table together. So opened a meeting at the University of York where the two traditions explored the spiritual space they both can share...	The emptying pewsVictoria Combe Results of a survey released this week reveal that more than half a million people in Britain stopped going to church in the past seven years,with the Catholic Church suffering the most. But there are also signs that the rate of decline has slowed...
Hitler and the Holy SeeJohn Cornwell Pope Pius XII has been wrongly accused of Nazi sympathies following the signing of the Reich Concordat with Germany in 1933. But will the opening of the Vatican archives for the 1920s and 1930s reveal the true nature of his activities in Germany?...	False memoir syndromeHilary Mantel Abuse by priests and nuns of children within their care is one of the most painful issues faced by today's Church. But the case of the victims is gravely undermined if exaggerated, or even palpably untrue, claims masquerade as memory...
No optional extra...Michael Hornsby-Smith That?s what the Synod of Bishops said about justice-seeking. Yet it?s proving tough to provoke interest in justice and peace. One campaigner offers some ideas for securing people?s commitment...	There was this one-eyed mare ...Hallowed Turf Sounds like a bad joke? Not a bit of it, as Dominic Prince reveals this week, along with a delightfully quaint place for a spot of lunch just yards from the thunder of the hooves...
Anatomy of a crisisRobert Mickens The Tablet's Rome correspondent, who travelled with the Pope to Bavaria, unravels the tangle of misunderstanding enveloping Benedict's quotation of a of a Byzantine emperor...	Words that change realityGuy Consolmagno
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