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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

To serve and celebrate Free Andre Lascaris Four Dominican theologians have caused a furore in the Dutch Church with their new booklet, arguing that the Church in future will have to allow ?inspired members of the community? to celebrate the Eucharist. Here, one of the authors explains their beliefs about who should preside...	Black mark for GordonWilliam Keegan The Government has prided itself on its financial prudence and custodianship of the economy during the last decade. Yet its management of the Northern Rock crisis this week was almost disastrous. What went wrong? What lessons can be learned about how we do business?...
Fevered thinkingJohn Cornwell Few books in modern times have so divided people as Richard Dawkins? bestseller The God Delusion. But careful reading of the book has identified a disturbing aspect to the biologist?s critique of religion. Here, one of his most trenchant critics deconstructs the attack on religion...	Cur? in the CabinetAlain Woodrow His was a controversial appointment as an adviser to France?s new hardline Minister for Housing and Urban Politics. But, as Salesian priest Fr Jean-Marie Petitclerc tells Alain Woodrow, he is just following in the footsteps of Don Bosco, the founder of his order...

Devout double agentAusten Ivereigh What makes a man live a life of duplicity and how does he come to terms with the chasm between his publicly professed beliefs and his secret degeneracy? A new film not only explores this conundrum but manages to portray Catholicism, and Opus Dei, in an intelligent manner...	Look beyond the boundariesPaul Hypher In many dioceses the priest-centred model of the parish will soon no longer be an option. Yet there are huge resources to draw on in terms of the commitment and competence of the laity. The Church must learn to incorporate these more effectively into its structure...
On Earth as it is in HeavenGuy Consolmagno

Columnists

Tim Hames

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

Peter Stanford

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

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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 ...

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