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Former Soviet satellite countries are predictably nervous in the face of the Russia's recent sabre-rattling. More disturbing yet is the Orthodox Church's enthusiasm to align itself with Moscow's increasingly hardline foreign policy Free

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Social teaching in action Free

Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, is a success story the Catholic Church in England and Wales can be proud of. Indeed, such is the quality of its staff that Lesley-Anne Knight, head of its international office, has just been elected ...

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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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'Hope, strength, courage' Free Elena Curti The parents of missing Madeleine McCann tell The Tablet how these three words, spoken to them by a Portuguese priest, have become a mantra as they continue the search for their daughter, sustained by the power of their Catholic faith...	Joseph's amazing paradoxTheo Hobson That Joseph of the Old Testament was hungry for fame is undoubted, but it was a fame that served God?s purpose. This was apparent in Andrew Lloyd Webber?s musical. But the television search for a star for the latest production of the show revealed a very different story...
Called to confessDominic Robinson Today the Sacrament of Reconciliation has a much lower profile in Britain than in Italy, where confessions continue even during Mass. This tradition highlights how significant a homily can be in inspiring the desire for penance...	New kind of freedomVictoria Combe Young people who have been in trouble with the law often fail to go straight after serving time in young offenders? institutions. But one project has found a solution. It requires faith, hope and mentors...

A saint for our timePeter Stanford For the supporters of the canonisation of controversial Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered in El Salvador in 1980, progress is slow. One who knew him well reminds us of the man behind the cause...	Mystery in a drop of wineDaniel O'Leary A moment at Charing Cross Tube station brings a brief revelation that, unlike between the train and the platform, there is no gap between the innate God of our hearts and the God of Jesus...
TABLET Traveller Yad Vashem - Pilgrims of St Francis - Marian devotion in England...	Of bungs and baksheeshJohn Morrish

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Jonathan Tulloch

Glimpses of Eden

Tim Hames

'It is crazy to boycott Israeli academics. It is the mother of all own goals'

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A jaundiced catalogue of scandals Free
God is not great: the case against religion
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is one of the most formidable polemicists writing in English today. But, for the most part, this attempt to refute religion reminds me of a tired old prizefighter ...

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