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Press reports have suggested that Pope Benedict puts his faith in the book of Genesis rather than Darwin, following publication of a new book on Creation and evolution. But the Pope's belief rationality does not mean that he has ruled out evolutionary theory Free

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Guns and American values Free

It is almost too easy to hold American gun law responsible for American gun crime. The ready availability of firearms is undoubtedly one of the reasons why a student at Virginia Tech shot and killed more than 30 university members - fellow students ...

France needs vision

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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

Superpower for some Free Keith O'Brien Sixty years after independence, India is rapidly transforming itself from an underdeveloped country into a leading world economy. But the problems of poverty that blighted the country when Pope Paul VI wrote his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio still need radical solutions...	Sacred or profane?Nicholas Buxton How profound is people's professed interest in spirituality? Is it a genuine search for God or a quest for personal fulfilment? A conference at Oxford looked at these questions in general and in particular how the modern media responds to them...
Hands of friendshipPatricia Lenihan Those with learning disabilities may or may not receive sufficient professional help, and will not neccessarily find the true friends they need. The local church, with the help of a Special Religious Development programme, can help fill this gap...	Divinely humanDaniel O'Leary The explosive power of God lies in the radical nature of Jesus and his takings on of the three great sufferings of physical pain, the loss of his good name and a sense of ultimate abandonment. To deny his humanity is to deny salvation...

France's dilemmaAlain Woodrow As the polls open tomorrow in the first round of the French presidential election, the country's voters appear more undecided than in many previous votes about what would be belle for La France...	Heaven's aboveStephen Hough Plane travel provokes the pianist Stephen Hough into a high-altitude reflection on the infinite value of God's protection...
Words from the heartJohn Morrish

Columnists

Tim Hames

'The triumph of personal strategy over sheer luck runs against the grain'

Ann Wroe

'To walk with a dog is to see the world with different senses'

Books and arts

Call for life in a world pandemic Free
Ethics and AIDS: compassion and justice in global crisis
Kenneth R. Overberg

The data is overwhelming: 40 million people infected with HIV/Aids; more than 25 million dead - 3 million in the last year alone; and 5 million newly infected cases in 2005 ...

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