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Flushed perhaps with its success in the fight against the Government over faith schools, the Church sought a similar outcome in its battle over gay adoption. This time it failed but what is sure is that the growing clash between faith and Westminster is not going to disappear Free

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The proposed ?compromise? by the Government over the fate of Catholic adoption agencies is in truth a defeat for the Catholic Church and a victory for those who have been opposing any exemption to the new regulations against homosexual discrimination.

The proposed "compromise" by the Government over the fate of Catholic adoption agencies is in truth a defeat for the Catholic Church and a victory for those who have been opposing any exemption to the new regulations against homosexual discrimination. ...

How to breed a nation of losers

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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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A pastoral deficit Free Donald Trautman The new English translation of the Missal being prepared by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy has caused grave concern. Here a leading liturgist argues that the translation falls short in one of its primary obligations...	Just for todayDaniel McCarthy Our desire for God?s definitive and ultimate favour is not directed simply towards the future; the longing we experience today, our living faith, allows the divine to exist in the present moment. Daniel McCarthy explains how, in the Opening Prayer for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, our hope can become its own fulfilment...
Nick and Charlie?s new lifeIsabel de Bertodano Catholic adoption agencies help create families from the most difficult of situations. Many fear that the continuity of support that characterises the agencies will be lost if they are forced to close within two years following the Church?s failure to secure exemption from the new equality regulations...	Nun, nurse and motherThe Tablet Interview Her first hospice pioneered rest and respite for disabled children and their families, while her second did the same for young adults. Terry Philpot talks to Sr Frances Dominica, founder of Helen House and Douglas House in Oxford whose work is currently being highlighted on BBC2...

Failure to deliverGrant Gallicho There may be a need for a public examination of the paedophile scandal rocking the Church worldwide. If there is, an Oscar-nominated documentary about clergy sexual abuse packing audiences into cinemas across the United States fails to fulfil it...	Braveheart joins the ChurchJohn Haldane In England it is seen as a matter of religious conscience over secular control. But in Scotland ?gay adoption? has become another battle in the war between Westminster and Holyrood, uniting clergy and politicians in the spirit of resistance...
Still part of the familyBernard Cotter World Day of the Sick falls this year on 11 February. It is a time for churches to think creatively and compassionately about those parishioners who cannot attend Mass and the opportunities for mutual help that arise within the parish...	Every child a schooled child Gordon Brown is committed to the Millennium Development Goal of free primary education for every child, and the World Bank?s Fast Track Initiative has the same aim. But is that aim achievable? asks Bernard O?Malley ...
Fat is a Lenten issueRose Prince

Columnists

Clifford Longley

?Distrust towards politicians and political institutions is the British disease?

Libby Purves

?I clicked and entered the world of Number 10?s cyber-protest?

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Solutions for a global crisis Free
Capitalism as if the World Matters
Jonathon Porritt

It is a sign of the times that An Inconvenient Truth, the film of Al Gore's lecture on climate change, was one of the best-attended American films of 2006. In it, Gore gives ...

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