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Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Enigmatic Catholic

Stephen Hough

Elgar?s music is often regarded as the epitome of Englishness, with all its Protestant pomp. But the circumstances of his faith, received from his mother who converted to Catholicism a few years before the composer was born, remain a riddle wrapped in mystery Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Appalling evil, infinite love Free 

The snatching of a small child from its loving parents is an unfathomable act of evil, which is why the world has been so moved by the plight of the McCann family these last four weeks - moved also by their dignity and faith, and by their utter determination ...

Key debate for church and state

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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 Labour Party is not sick of office but it has been bruised by the experience of power?

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Libby PurvesLibby Purves

?Why have no senior clergy addressed the question of pre-nups??

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 Books and arts

Prospects for a wild country Free 
The Punishment of Virtue
Sarah Chayes

Based in Paris for America's National Public Radio (NPR), Sarah Chayes stuck her hand up for active duty after 9/11 and was smartly dispatched to Quetta, the hottest town on ...

       
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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