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With the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics less than a week away, much rides on how the world will come to view the economically booming nation following the fortnight’s festival. For China more than for any other previous host, the Olympiad is about so much more than sport Free

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Bishops of the Anglican Communion were fortunate in their choice of speaker on Monday, because talking about the big picture is one of the things the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, does best. He has an acute understanding of the role of religion ...

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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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Rise of the Roman umpire Free Victoria Combe The biggest Vatican delegation ever to attend the Lambeth Conference will be heading for Rome this weekend following a fortnight in Canterbury where their ideas were sought to help impose discipline and unity on the Anglican Communion...	Above the churning seaRichard Abbott The first in our summer series featuring five seaside parishes looks at the dramatically sited Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea on Anglesey, whose doors are closed while the parish awaits news from the lottery fund about a cash injection that will restore it to its full modernist glory...
Unity through the SpiritDaniel McCarthy Invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist has a purpose beyond the transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, Daniel McCarthy explains. The Spirit also unites all those making offerings for the needy, who are thus made one with their neighbour and with Christ...	Healers of troubled mindsTerry Philpot For more than 500 years, the Hospitaller Order of St John of God has worked with the sick and the vulnerable. Its Prior General, Donatus Forkan, talks to Terry Philpot about its pioneering work in the field of mental health...

Tablet business ethics specialAusten Ivereigh, James Bevan, Russell Sparkes A decent day’s pay - Social concerns make sound returns - Methodist monitors...	Invitation that makes a differenceAnne Booth
The cruel seaRose Prince

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‘The Chinese market will provide the incentive for poachers to launder illegal ivory’

Colenso Lambeth

‘Most bishops that I chatted to on the march couldn’t name the Millennium Goals’

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Beyond academic boxes Free
Theology for Pilgrims
Nicholas Lash

These essays offer to incipient as well as accomplished students of theology a paradigm of workmanship and devoted attention to what is real. In essays reminiscent of John Henry ...

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