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Headlines were dominated last week by Cardinal Keith O?Brien?s warning that anyone, including politicians, who might be complicit in abortion is forbidden from receiving Communion. Was he right to raise the stakes in the political debate over terminations? Yes, says Edward Leigh; no, says Stephen Pound, below Free

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The duty of a Catholic MP Free

Democracy is not entirely understood by the Catholic Church. During the 2004 presidential election in the United States, certain Catholic bishops intervened to warn Catholic electors not to back Senator John Kerry because, despite his personal opposition ...

Russia deserves respect

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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

Darfur: a prison with no walls Free Chris Bain Two million people are refugees in Darfur, fleeing the fighting that has tainted their country for years. With numbers increasing and a shortage of food, reports Cafod?s director, aid agencies are struggling. There will be no solution and no ceasefire unless all the parties come to the table...	?We need more thought and fewer thunderbolts to bring about change? Free Stephen Pound I've had the great pleasure of meeting Cardinal Keith O'Brien and found him to be a warm and humane man with a deep generosity of spirit. But in the past week I began to wonder whether I had misread the man, given the coverage of his Edinburgh homily on abortion....
A conflict in need of fresh thinking Free Julie Flint Kaltouma Musa walked home a few weeks ago with her baby on her back, writes Julie Flint. She was exchanging a camp where she had been receiving aid for a rebel-controlled area with no aid ? an area marked on UN maps as a no-go zone....	The channel that lost its wayJane Thynne It began as a publicly funded network for alternative perspectives and became a byword for quality television. But now Channel 4 is in the firing line from many quarters for puerile and offensive programmes. If it is sold off, what will happen to the original ethos of television for minority views?...

Sarkozy?s wild cardAlain Woodrow The appointment of maverick left-winger Bernard Kouchner as Foreign Minister in the new French administration took Right and Left by surprise. It brings a man with extensive experience of international development into the heart of government. But how long can the experiment last?...	Speaking for the Church in a new languageMargaret Hebblethwaite Pablo Richard?s lecture at the CELAM conference at Aparecida, on the subject of a Church dominated by fear, must have made uncomfortable listening for the gathered bishops. He tells Margaret Hebblethwaite how he sees the future of liberation Theology...
Reaching towards mysteryJames Roberts The big questions of Creation were discussed at a conference organised by the Newman Association last week. Chief among them was the compatability between scientific understanding and our understanding of the nature of God...	Through veneration to redemptionDaniel McCarthy The Corpus Christi celebration in England and Wales has moved from the Thursday after Trinity to the following Sunday. Daniel McCarthy examines the prayer for the feast, uncovering the depth of its appreciation of the mystery of the Eucharist...
First steps to belongingJohn Deehan On the feast of Corpus Christi, a priest reflects on how preparation for First Communion has developed in his parish over the last seven years...	Up the Rh?neN. O'Phile

Columnists

Clifford Longley

?The Church?s hard line these last 20 years may have led to more abortions, not fewer?

Christopher Howse?s Presswatch

?The Independent has made a speciality of taking against the Church recently?

Books and arts

Victorians’ English utopia Free
Medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern England
Michael Alexander

In a few months' time you will be able to travel from central London to Paris faster than ever before in history; departing from a restored and partly remodelled station designed ...

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