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Fitting exit for Mr Blair Free

So Tony Blair was not led from 10 Downing Street in handcuffs as his enemies had dreamed: he departed the political stage on the crest of a wave of goodwill such as few prime ministers have experienced before him. The House of Commons stood, clapped ...

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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

Rudy?s rude awakening Free Michael McGough The question of whether Catholic politicians who support legalised abortion should be allowed to take Communion is threatening to become a major issue in the 2008 presidential election, writes Michael McGough...	When winners should not take allWilliam Keegan Gordon Brown claims a strong sense of social justice which he says he wants to put at the core of Government. Here, his biographer urges him to show that commitment by reversing the tax trend where the super rich pay little or nothing at all and the poor lack the support that they need...
Mission accomplishedDanilo Castello London?s Missionary Institute closed its doors for the last time on Friday. For 40 years it trained people to work in the developing world; now students from Asia or Africa will be trained at home. Here its president celebrates its short but intense history...	Rites on the roadJune Rockett It may seem trivial compared to liturgy or catechetics. But the parish outing offers opportunities for establishing and renewing relationships as well as much-needed recreation for all. The key to success is people who are willing to take responsibility...

Sin and sensibilitiesMelanie McDonagh There are so many ways to offend these days with, from tomorrow, smoking a cigarette in an enclosed public place being but the latest secular sin to be added to contemporary society?s proscriptions...	The lost AnglicanTheo Hobson In this highly provocative account, a fellow Anglican argues that Tony Blair?s drift to Rome highlights the recent dilution of the Church of England?s identity...
Tablet USA supplement Evangelicals and the environment - Deacons - The Sopranos...	Are you sitting comfortably?John Morrish

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Tim Hames

'Brilliant at details, many have chimed, but can Gordon really do the big-picture stuff'

Margaret Hebblethwaite

'She previously lived in a tiny house where 10 people squeezed in a couple of rooms'

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Prophecy as American Policy Free
Have a nice doomsday: why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world
Nicholas Guyatt

Nicholas Guyatt has bravely set out on an important mission to explore what most Europeans and liberal Americans view as a "playpen for lunatics": the world of millions ...

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