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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 ...

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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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Guilty until proved innocent Free Austen Ivereigh The Cumberlege Commission?s review of the Church?s child-protection policy is about to be published. While treatment of the abused has improved, disturbing evidence has emerged that priests who have been accused and not charged are left in limbo, suspicion still hanging over them...	Living the good lifeJames Roberts A panel of atheists and believers went head to head last week in a debate that tackled the question of whether religion is a benign force in the world. Could those who saw only the here and now and those who saw faith as transforming find any common cause?...
Jonah: the tale of man betrayedAmanda Hopkinson Thousands of Zimbabweans have sought asylum here after suffering persecution by Robert Mugabe?s regime. But, as the Norwich Justice and Peace Group discovered when it tried to help one desperate man, refugees? experience of injustice does not necessarily end when they arrive...	Inside Hizb ut-TahrirTheo Hobson Liberalism has long been characterised as a ?live and let live? philosophy. But as an encounter with the controversial Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir reveals, radical Islam challenges liberals to be far bolder in defending the worth of their own way of thinking...

Human dignity on trialJohn Cornwell A recent public consultation on the future of scientific research involving animal-human hybrids was attended by passionate advocates from both sides. The appetite for these experiments turned out to be rather less than the Government might have expected...	Rivers of revelationNicholas King The recent flooding in the United Kingdom has for some evoked the biblical notion of divine retribution for man?s sins. Here, a theologian reflects on finding meaning amid the meaningless destruction...
Discover how to celebrateJames Leachman A Mass for parents with preschool children offers insights into the different ways that the typical, richly varied congregation can combine to develop the art of worship...	Use of the LiturgyPope Benedict XVI This is an edited version of the letter by Pope Benedict XVI to the Bishops accompanying the Apostolic Letter ?Summorum Pontificum?...
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