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Latest issue: 17 March 2007
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Iron fist, but velvet glove

Robert Mickens

Jesuit liberation theologian Jon Sobrino was formally denounced this week by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But in a surprise move, the Pope?s enforcers have not silenced the man, banned his books or barred Catholics from reading them Free 

 From the editor’s desk


A more mature judgement Free 

The Vatican's denunciation of certain works by the Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino will be widely seen as a renewal of its campaign against liberation theology. He is one of its leading exponents. Nevertheless, the terms of the latest judgement differ ...

Two cheers for an elected lords

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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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Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

?The treatment of Lord Levy reeks of jealousy of his wealth and influence?

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Ann WroeAnn Wroe

?As he raised the drill he asked me whether I had thought of joining the Legion of Mary?

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 Books and arts

In search of a lost Iraqi tribe Free 
Last Days in Babylon: the story of the Jews of Baghdad
Marina Benjamin

Since 2003, over a million and a half Iraqi Christians have left their homes. Many settled in Baghdad; others went abroad where they now form a large diaspora. Tens of thousands ...

       
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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