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Stumbling towards unity Free

Almost the whole burden of preserving the Anglican Communion from schism now rests on the shoulders of the Episcopal Church in the United States. It has about seven months to decide whether to comply with a tough package of conditions drawn up by the ...

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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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Winds of change Free R. William Franklin Rather than be split by a much-trumpeted schism, the Anglican Communion emerged from its meeting in Tanzania this week as a new kind of twenty-first-century Church, reflecting changes in ecclesial and geopolitical power...	?Through many dangers, toils and snares ...? Free Stephen Bates When Catholic cardinals meet in conclave they tend to do so under the stern eye of God in the Sistine Chapel...
Golden mean of faith schoolsFrancis Gilbert Conservative leader David Cameron is the latest politician to say that he wants his child to attend a church school. At a time of growing anxiety about the malaise affecting Britain?s young people, the author of Yob Nation, himself a teacher, examines why these schools work ? not only for the most privileged but the most deprived children...	Lead kindly lightDiana Klein Lent and its culmination in the solemn liturgies of Easter is the most momentous time of the year for adults but, with its violent undercurrents, it can be one of the most difficult for children, whose path can be eased by the use of the narrative power of the gospel stories...

In Lent we grow by dyingDaniel O'Leary The search for the real self is central to the Lenten journey. In facing one?s shadows, one begins to know truly the light of one?s soul. It is a Lenten grace when we are able to hold within us, as Jesus did, the tension of such paradoxes...	This day forwardAndrew Cameron-Mowat Critics of liturgical renewal are becoming increasingly vocal in denouncing post-Vatican II changes. But creativity and genius are part of tradition. Reform within the Roman Rite must remain alive to the signs of the times...
In thought and deedDaniel McCarthy In his examination of the opening prayer for the first Sunday of Lent, Daniel McCarthy points to the Lenten exercises by which we contemplate the mystery of Christ and conduct our daily lives in a way worthy of HiM...	On the edge of slaveryAmanda Hopkinson A statue to commemorate the end of the slave trade is to be unveiled in Haiti on Monday. Yet the enslaving of hundreds of thousands of children living in abject poverty continues in the Caribbean island state...
One fix leads to anotherGuy Consolmagno With my colleague Dan Britt from the University of Central Florida, for several years I've been measuring the densities and porosities of meteorites....

Columnists

Peter Stanford

?Only 60 per cent of British children say their parents talk to them regularly?

Tim Hames

?Pessimists and fatalists should not have a monopoly over Middle East politics?

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Leaders against the grain Free
The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: three who changed the world
John O’Sullivan

The causes of the sudden collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War remain a rich and important field of enquiry. John O'Sullivan, the conservative political commentator ...

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