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Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Into the age of uncertainty

Anthony O’Mahony

In 1981 Israel destroyed a newly built Iraqi nuclear reactor. Now Iran is the perceived nuclear threat, and in recent weeks the Jewish and Islamic states have engaged in alarming sabre-rattling. Today the stakes are even higher than in 1981, but the constraints on conflict are not the same Free 

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Grace under pressure Free 

Bishops of the Anglican Communion have gathered for the Lambeth Conference, which has begun with a retreat. But the calm atmosphere of prayer and contemplation evoked by the word seems to be in strong contrast with the rancorous character of the preliminaries ...

Barack the bridge-builder

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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

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘The more “self-defence” knives there are, the greater the likelihood of stabbings’

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Shaun Middleton

‘The consciences of many priests are being tested by the subtle reform of the reform’

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 Books and arts

Ever attentive to grace Free 
The Duty of Delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day
Robert Ellsberg

Dorothy Day, the American-born founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, has long been idolised by many of her fellow believers. But even they will be astonished by the revelations ...

       
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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