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Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Green prayers for a beautiful world

Alex Kirby

Arguing that we need to develop a sense of sin when we offend against the natural world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led his latest interfaith environmental meeting last week in Greenland where the ice is melting at a ?phenomenal' rate Free 

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Run on trust Free 

The spectacle of queues forming outside banks with crowds desperate to withdraw their savings is one that is perhaps more redolent of Latin America than northern Europe. Yet the scenes witnessed at branches of Northern Rock might not simply concern ...

The greening of the Vatican

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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 unofficial slogan of the Labour conference should be: Enjoy it while it lasts'

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Peter StanfordPeter Stanford

'There is something very comforting about repeating words which are so familiar'

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 Books and arts

Unstilled Human Longings Free 
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor is among the half-dozen leading philosophers in the English-speaking world. Raised in Montreal, associated with McGill University for most of his career, he studied ...

       
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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