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Benedict?s European gambit

Robert Mickens

More than half the recipients of red hats next month are from Europe, representing the Pope's concern with the ?old' continent. And most of the new cardinals are young enough to carry Benedict's torch even if a conclave is not necessary for 15 years Free 

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A welcome pastoral approach Free 

The joint statement on abortion from the two cardinals of the Catholic Church in Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster and Cardinal Keith O'Brien of Edinburgh, signals a welcome change of tone in the Church's treatment ...

Power of immigration

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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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?In the name of democracy the Tory press wants to sideline Parliament?

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Christopher Howse?s presswatchChristopher Howse?s presswatch

?Auberon Waugh spoke of Nigel Dempster as a lost soul who knows he is lost?

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 Books and arts

Trailing clouds of glory Free 
Creation: artists, gods and origins
Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad's latest book "describes the long illness and eventual demise of the Christian God and shows how artists were ready and eager to take over a creative role that ...

       
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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