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History?s hard lessons

Thomas Norton

A government grant is allowing two pupils from every UK school to visit the former concentration camp of Auschwitz, in an effort to instil in young people an urgent sense that the horror of genocide must never be repeated. The Tablet accompanied a group on this moving journey Free 

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Harsh words from Rome Free 

Celebration of the Eucharist is at the heart of Catholic identity, to the extent that regular attendance at Mass usually defines who is and who is not entitled to call themselves by that name. This may be why liturgical controversy in the Church sometimes ...

On track for new Europe

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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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?Extremism offers a rootless generation a strong sense of Muslim identity?

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?Normal jobs, combining hard work and average pay, are no longer acceptable?

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 Books and arts

No pity for the honest imperialist Free 
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Piers Brendon

This is a great book, vitiated, to my mind, by a great fault. Its author has claimed that it does for the British Empire what Gibbon did for the Roman. He may well be right ...

       
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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