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The Polish Church was hit by its most serious crisis since the fall of Communism when the new Archbishop of Warsaw resigned minutes before his planned inaugural Mass, admitting collaboration that he had previously denied. Only openness and humility can begin to repair the damage Free

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Chance for Poles to think again Free

This time, at least it was not about sex. That is almost the only comforting fact to emerge from the fiasco in the Polish Catholic Church over the appointment of a new Archbishop of Warsaw. The dramatic last-minute withdrawal of Archbishop Stanislaw ...

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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

Checked by JowellJane Thynne A media minister caving in to the Chancellor, and bad publicity from massive celebrity signings and executive pay deals could be behind the corporation?s failure to get its wished-for licence-fee rise. But with an annual income of ?3 billion, it can still face the future without flinching ...	My enemy?s enemyOla Tj?rhom Shared views on the traditional family and sexual ethics have led to alliances between otherwise very different Churches. But the dialogue is faltering between Catholics and Anglicans over these same ethical issues. Where does this leave the goal of Christian unity?...
The hawks? final swoopRobert Fox The Bush administration?s strategy of taking control of troublesome areas of Baghdad by sending a ?surge? of troops has the support of only a few committed neocons. But with prospects of success looking grim, the focus of their attention is now shifting to Iran...	On earth and in heavenDaniel McCarthy In our flesh we bear the image of Adam but we also bear the image of Christ, writes Daniel McCarthy. This Sunday?s opening prayer, acknowledging God as ruler of heavenly and earthly realities, bears witness to our divine creation and also to our divine recreation...

Gossamer across the abyssRobin Hutt The Christian faith that unites a family can also impose the most painful separation. Here a Methodist minister remembers his late brother, a Catholic priest, and how, while the two men dreamed of unity, they were separated at the eucharistic heart of the faith...	Thorns in the PM?s sideAnthony Howard Dr Rowan Williams is not the only archbishop to have irritated Britain?s political leadership in a time of armed conflict. But the variations in church support for governments since the First World War have not always been predictable...
Troubled path to the ballot boxIsabel de Bertodano Male Christians, and women of all religions, have much to be afraid of in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism ahead of next week?s polls in Bangladesh, one of the world?s poorest democracies...	Rite of passageVeronica Robbins Initiation into Catholicism can be a lonely business for the catechumenate, and support is vital...
A wine by any other nameN. O?Phile

Columnists

Tim Hames

?Mr Brown has the chance to recast totally the way that others perceive him?

Nicholas Pyke

?Special education is a battleground on which no one can win?

Books and arts

Origins of a modern virus Free
Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations
Martin Goodman

This is an important book, on a difficult subject: the reason why the Romans, who had so much in common with the Jews, sought to destroy the Jews and Judaism completely ...

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