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The debate surrounding the atheist philosopher Antony Flew’s alleged admission of the existence of God has resurfaced with the publication of his latest work, There is a God. Here, a philosophy professor with a ringside seat examines how Flew was embroiled in the culture wars of our time Free

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Children need Fathers Free

From time to time an idea comes along that captures the mood of the moment. Eight years ago a new organisation, Fathers Direct, did just that. Its main aim was to provide information on fatherhood through training and advice, but its very existence ...

Mr Sarkozy's Revolution

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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

The problem with Pakistan Free Kevin Rafferty The world is faced with nuclear dangers on a worrying scale, but while the Western focus is on Iran, a greater threat is growing daily in a country seen as a bastion against terrorism...	Can Aquinas help cool the planet?Catherine Pepinster Thomist virtues such as temperance, frugality, abstinence and compassion could be important weapons in the Church’s arsenal to fight global warming, according to one speaker at a major conference in Oxford on the ethics of climate change last week...
A new song in the ValleysKaren Thomas For many years nationalist politics did not sit easily with Welsh Catholicism. But since the setting up of the Assembly and the influx of Catholic immigrants, common interests are becoming increasingly obvious, and new identities are being forged...	Finding the right keyCole Moreton The Vatican has given its blessing to the makers of a DVD that shows John Paul II at prayer, greeting crowds and singing. Now even the distinctly un-Catholic composer who wrote the score has fallen under the late Pope’s spell...

Faith in the futureBernard Quinlan

The ideals of ‘empowering people’ and ‘lay leadership’ can mean little as long as parishes are wholly priest-centred. But necessity will bring change and transform the local church...

Too much enthusiasmGuy Consolmagno

Columnists

Clifford Longley

‘The impact of Britain’s armed forces over the past two decades has been beneficial’

Christopher Howse’s presswatch

‘The religious significance of the Aran sweater made most of the running’

Books and arts

Fiction’s sacramental insights Free
Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: the English Catholic novel today
Marian E. Crowe

In Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1951), the third of what are often called his "Catholic novels", the convinced atheism of the sour and angry narrator, Maurice ...

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