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Beware false promises

Neil Scolding

Just how reliable, asks a leading neuroscientist, are claims made for the research benefits of human-animal hybrid embryos – one of the most controversial elements in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now being debated in the House of Commons? Free 

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Issues that won't go away Free 

Cardinal John Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster at the time of the publication of Humanae Vitae 40 years ago this summer, described the crisis of authority it triggered as "the greatest shock the Church has suffered since the Reformation". ...

Burma’s moral failure

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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 ...

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 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

‘The political autobiography trade has become a dash for cash’

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Ann WroeAnn Wroe

‘The deepest impression of the sea of bluebells is of receptive, listening silence’

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 Books and arts

Continent’s awkward partnership Free 
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
Stephen Wall

Madam, there are 50,000 men slain this day in Europe, and not one Englishman." Sir Robert Walpole's justification of his refusal to embroil Britain in the European quarrels ...

       
Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb

According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ...

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 ...


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