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Latest issue: 13 July 2007
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Beyond language

Mark Francis

Pope Benedict?s sanction for wider use of the Tridentine Mass is an unprecedented change in the Church?s liturgical life. But as this professor of liturgy argues, it also has troubling theological and pastoral consequences Free 

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A step backwards Free 

The regular worship of the average Catholic parish may well go on regardless, despite the ruling from Pope Benedict XVI authorising the use of the Tridentine Rite of the Mass in certain circumstances. For English speakers, a far bigger and more propitious ...

Help for marriage

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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

Jonathan TullochJonathan Tulloch

Glimpses of Eden

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Tim HamesTim Hames

'By pulling his punches, Alastair Campbell may be the rare diarist who retains his friends'

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 Books and arts

       
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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