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Robert MickensTens 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
From the editor’s desk
| 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 |
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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 ... |
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Features
Lugo’s new calling Free Margaret HebblethwaiteAfter breaking the longest spell of single-party rule in the world, ex-bishop Fernando Lugo Méndez has been elected president of Paraguay. While left-wing like his Latin American presidential counterparts, his views owe far more to liberation theology than to anti-Americanism...
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|  Space for the divineRowan WilliamsThe traditional role of a priest was as a spiritual leader, upholder of morals, a focal point of the community. But what is the point of a priest in a contemporary society? A voice of calm, a rock, help for the helpless? All these, says the Archbishop of Canterbury, but something else too... |
 Food for the soulChristopher JamisonPope Benedict recently invited the leaders of religious orders to respond to the signs of the times, highlighting in particular the growth of a spirituality that closes itself off from the Church. The Abbot of Worth takes up the Pope’s challenge... |  At one with the worldBenedict XVIHuman rights are the business of the world’s religions and not just of lawmakers, the Pope made plain in his speech to the United Nations. And with those rights come responsibilities, including the ‘responsibility to protect’... |
 To end poverty, unitePaul NicolsonSince the establishment of the welfare state, successive UK Governments have failed to eradicate poverty. But the charities themselves must share the blame because they have been such ineffectual and divided campaigners... | The terror of certaintyPeter StanfordA group of Muslims, including converts from Christianity, were jailed last week for terrorist offences. What makes such an extreme form of Islam of the kind they advocated so appealing? A Tablet columnist found out when he met them...
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Growing into GodDaniel McCarthyThe affection between God and humanity is reciprocal. As our relationship with God develops from that of a child, to an adult, to a spouse, so we learn to receive more fully God’s gift, and to give ourselves more fully in response...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘Mr Brown’s biggest problem is that he sets a course and follows it, come what may’  Richard 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 ... |
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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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