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After three months of intimidation by the ruling regime, Zimbabweans on Friday are to vote in a presidential run-off election. The Churches are the last defence against the power of the state, and here one of the foremost authorities on Zimbabwe examines the President’s attempts to rein them in Free

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Divisions that must be avoided Free

A gathering of a family around the supper table is a moment when the bonds that are shared are reinforced, the love its members have for one another is enhanced and the very experience of coming together can strengthen them as they go out into the ...

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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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Ringing in the old Free Elena Curti A Pontifical High Mass in the Tridentine Rite was said in Westminster Cathedral last weekend for the first time in four decades. Its celebrant, a close ally of the Pope and an ambassador for the old liturgy, promised that further changes will be afoot...	Gifts freely madeDaniel McCarthy In order to allow the faithful to participate fully in the work of God, not only in the offering they make during the liturgy but in the whole of their Christian lives, God’s gift first incites their being cleansed of all that holds them back from reconciling and keeps them from freedom to praise...
A place for allJane Shields The case of a 13-year-old autistic boy banned from Mass by a priest in Minnesota has highlighted how far the faithful have yet to go in understanding the spiritual needs of disabled people. And autism in particular offers very difficult challenges to fellow worshippers ...	Evil that men doRobert Fox Are those who do bad things bad? Or are they part of a systemic iniquity? Analysis of the behaviour of guards at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo suggests that their actions are not random but part of an increasingly institutionalised wrongdoing...

The roar of Africa’s new literary lionLucy Lethbridge Lucy Lethbridge talks to the Jesuit priest and writer Uwem Akpan, who has created a sensation with his collection of short stories viewing life through the eyes of his continent’s dispossessed young people ...	Rest for weary TravellersIsabel de Bertodano With the ruling of a High Court judge to stay their eviction from the largest encampment in Britain, Travellers in Essex are now looking to permanent homes thanks to the support of a nearby Catholic parish...
One cheer for atheismDavid Hay With their new-found militancy, atheists have inadvertently been batting for God by bringing religion back into the public arena. But the argument that theists should rely on focuses on religious experience...	Trash in, trash outJohn Morrish

Columnists

Clifford Longley

‘An occasional display of principled opposition to the party line is necessary’

Christopher Howse

‘There could be worse examples for a couple of 22-year-old Catholics from Merseyside to set’

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Arguments against naturalism Free
Knowledge of God
Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley

The tradition of "great debates" about the existence of God is by now well established (a famous early example was the discussion between Bertrand Russell and Frederick ...

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