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Latest issue: 10 February 2007
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Has liberation theology had its day?

Tina Beattie

As Aquinas baptised Aristotle, so liberation theologians sought to baptise Marx. While the result was planted among the Church?s grassroots, in today?s climate of human rights a new theology is springing up to express God?s ?preferential love for the poor? Free 

 From the editor’s desk


A welcome modest concession Free 

The key subtext to the recent row over the right of Catholic adoption agencies to discriminate against homosexuals was the widespread public perception that the Catholic Church is a homophobic institution - a position reinforced by gay lobby groups, ...

Damage done to democracy

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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

 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

?The Fifth Republic has a facade of institutional iron that does not fit with the rusty facts?

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Michael McCarthyMichael McCarthy

?The Church needs to recognise explicitly that climate change is a moral issue?

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 Books and arts

Pope who has baffled his critics Free 
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his battle with the modern world
David Gibson

After the announcement of Joseph Ratzinger's election to the papacy, as David Gibson relates in his new book, the then public affairs adviser to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, ...

       
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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