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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 ...

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Koch: ‘Church has become ally in fight against anti-Semitism'
Vatican cardinal recounts 50 years of Catholic-Jewish dialogue

I am honoured to be here today to present the John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding, the fifth in a series of prestigious annual lectures organised by the ...

Secularism - good or bad?
Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views

The two most senior clerics in England and Wales set out on the same day contrasting visions of the threats posed to Christianity by secularism.

In a lecture at ...

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Lugo’s new calling Free Margaret Hebblethwaite 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...	Address to the United Nations of His Holiness Benedict XVI Free
Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI, Celebration of The Eucharist Free	Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI Free

Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI, meeting with young people and Seminarians Free	Space for the divineRowan Williams 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...
Food for the soulChristopher Jamison 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...	At one with the worldBenedict XVI 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’...
To end poverty, unitePaul Nicolson 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...	The terror of certaintyPeter Stanford 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...
Growing into GodDaniel McCarthy 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...	Looking for somethingGuy Consolmagno

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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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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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