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Voyage of discovery

Robert Mickens

Tens of millions across the United States were entranced by the visit of the Pope of ‘faith and reason’ to their country and engaged by his frankness, especially over the matter of clerical sexual abuse. But there was as much unsaid as spoken Free 

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Abuse questions remain for CDF Free 

Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? Pope Benedict went further than expected in the way he dealt with the issue of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in America, and earned much praise for it. Not only did he condemn it in the strongest terms several ...

Housing for the common good

 Texts in full

Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text

The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ...

Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'

Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ...

 Features

 Columnists

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘Mr Brown’s biggest problem is that he sets a course and follows it, come what may’

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Richard RodriguezRichard Rodriguez

‘To Protestant America, the Latin South has been seen as a place of (Catholic) superstition’

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 Books and arts

All is not well in arcadia Free 
Real England: the battle against the bland
Paul Kingsnorth

We're all urbanites or suburbanites these days (well, over 90 per cent of us) but the myth of rural England, it seems, remains deeply rooted in the national psyche. When the ...

       
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 ...

Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb

When do the bad actions of a few completely overshadow the good of the past?
This question ...


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