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In a major lecture given on Tuesday to invited guests and the community of Sant?Anselmo in Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury argued that the Rule of St Benedict could provide a spiritual blueprint to bring together the diverse communities that make up the modern continent of Europe Free

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New world ? new nuclear policy Free

At the time when Tony Blair's Cabinet is said to be split over whether to renew Britain's nuclear armoury, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales has joined its Scottish brethren in calling for Britain to end its reliance ...

The icebergs of Anglicanism

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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 ...

Features

My kind of carol Free Vote for your favourite carol before 8 December. The winning carol will be announced in the Christmas double issue. Vote for your favourite carol now...	Power to the people Free Austen Ivereigh In the days of Cardinal Manning, the Church was at the forefront of protest against poverty and poor working conditions. Could it happen again, with faith groups taking direct action as a means of promoting justice, fairness and human dignity?...
Flight from fear Free John Pontifex The conflict in Iraq between Shia and Sunni Muslims continues to dominate headlines. Yet the Christian community there is threatened with wipeout and the media barely demur, in a crisis that is imbued with tragic irony...	Christe redemptor omnium Free Martin Baker I am often asked about my favourite piece of music. It is a difficult question for anyone who performs on a daily basis. To say which is my favourite Christmas carol is even harder....

True kingship, truly shared For the feast of Christ the King, the Opening Prayer draws on two constitutions of the Second Vatican Council, as well as earlier sources. Daniel McCarthy examines the complexity of the concept of King in the prayer, and what we can discern from it about our place in the Kingdom...	Into the minefieldDavid Barchard With little in the way of a diplomatic offensive to engage Turkish opinion in preparation for next week?s visit by the Pope, and with Turks already sensitive to rejectionist noises from Europe, Benedict XVI will not find it easy to win over hearts and minds...
Till stress us do partCatherine Pepinster Pressures of life today drive a horse and carriage through love and marriage, according to the successor to the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, this month marking its sixtieth anniversary...	Medium and the messageTracy Curran
Clouds of unknowingGuy Consolmagno

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Clifford Longley

?Religious identity is not primarily about ideas or opinions but about who you are?

Peter Stanford

?I?m always saying that children today are as safe as my own generation?

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Mutiny that destroyed an emperor Free
The Last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple

Next year will be the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Indian Mutiny, an event which William Dalrymple calls "the largest rebellion against their empire that the ...

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