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A devastating critique of the Catholic Church in Australia recently published by one of the country?s most respected bishops has ignited debate about its future and pushed the progressive majority of the Church back to prominence after years in the shadows Free

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A word in Rome's ear Free

The Catholic Church throughout the developed world faces a series of challenges: a fast-changing society, declining attendance, liturgical disputes, falling vocations, scandals caused by child abuse. It is an uncomfortable position to be in, whether ...

Basra and beyond

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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

It still is about the poor Free Mian Ridge Ten years after the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, her mission to care for the poor is flourishing in the hands of her fellow sisters, who, helped by more volunteers than ever, are committed to carrying their charismatic founder?s compassionate vision into the future...	Brighton's unofficial queenRichard Abbott In the last in our summer series, we visit the south coast and St John the Baptist, the church beloved of Maria Fitzherbert, a Catholic who in 1785 the Prince of Wales defied the Act of Settlement to marry. A mystery lingers over their relationship, and the disappearance of pages from the parish register means that it may never be solved...
New beat for the Mersey's heartJim Clarke The fatal shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones has drawn eyes again to Liverpool, and following that shocking event people there braced themselves for a barrage of negative publicity. But as a resident journalist observes, there is a fresh mood about the city that defies the clich?s and promises real hope...	Clouds of witnessMichael Northcott Pro-life should mean saying no to pollutants ? yet recent contradictory events in the Vatican highlight continued confusion within the Catholic Church over ecological issues...

Sensibility and the sensesMartin Foster

A liturgist reflects on what Pope Benedict?s Apostolic Exhortation ?Sacramentum Caritatis? has to say about how we participate in the Mass...

Beware the temples of convenienceRose Prince

Columnists

Christopher Howse's presswatch

'Nicole Kidman is being criticised as a Catholic in what some see as an anti-Catholic film'

Margaret Hebblethwaite

'In 1810, Paraguay was as big as Brazil. No wonder Paraguayans feel hard done by'

Books and arts

Radicals and conscience-wrestlers Free
Catholic Social Justice: theological and practical explorations
Eds Philomena Cullen, Bernard Hoose and Gerard Mannion

Because it is not easy to arouse public interest in documents of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, the publishers of Catholic Social Justice must be cock-a-hoop at ...

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