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Latest issue: 25 April 2008  Voyage of discoveryRobert 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
Church in the World‘Corner turned’ in US abuse scandal |
AustriaJews suspend dialogue with Church | ParaguayFormer bishop ends party’s 60-year rule |
PeruCardinal bans Communion in hand | PolandFurore over naming of new Gdansk archbishop |
RomeCardinal Trujillo dies at 72 | Slovak RepublicSokol endorses fascist dictator |
United StatesBenedict XVI wins friends and influences people | ZimbabweChurch leaders warn of genocide |
Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI, meeting with young people and Seminarians
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Address to the United Nations of His Holiness Benedict XVI
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Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI, Celebration of The Eucharist
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Lugo’s new calling
After 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...
To end poverty, uniteTo end poverty, unite
Since 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...
At one with the worldAt one with the world
Human 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’...
The terror of certainty
A 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...
Food for the soulFood for the soul
Pope 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...
Space for the divineSpace for the divine
The 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...
Growing into God
The 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...
