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Church 1, State 1

James Freestone

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 

 From the editor’s desk


Faith?s place in public life Free 

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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 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

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

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Libby PurvesLibby Purves

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

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 Books and arts

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 ...

       
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 ...

The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor

"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...


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