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Latest issue: 24 August 2007
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Poland's shame

John Cornwell

Both bishops and religious orders are failing to condemn an avowedly anti-Semitic Redemptorist priest, whose radio station is bolstering political support for the extreme nationalism of the 58-year-old identical twins inhabiting the offices of Polish President and Prime Minister Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Amnesty's Orwellian option Free 

Ever since the Catholic Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1961, the story of the pressure group has been one of heartbreak. While the group, now with 1.8 million members around the world, has been hugely successful in highlighting the ...

Family values, human rights

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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

Tim HamesTim Hames

'The Churches have taken more interest than politicians in the issue or personal debt'

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Peter StanfordPeter Stanford

'Perhaps he mistook my dressing gown for a Primitive Methodist clerical robe'

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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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