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Latest issue: 17 April 2009
Last updated: 10 February 2012

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Blair pushes the boundaries

Isabel de Bertodano

The former prime minister’s criticism of church teaching on homosexuality has reportedly caused consternation in the Vatican. But opinions are divided as to whether his liberal approach will help or hinder the work of his new Faith Foundation Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Voices from the lower depths Free 

Until now, the anarchic and unruly realm of the blogger has been seen as a somewhat surreal world remote from real life. It has at last impinged on mainstream British politics in no uncertain fashion. The malicious blogging ambitions of a couple of ...

New labour, new Catholic

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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

David BlairDavid Blair

‘If Zuma recognises his own limitations his presidency could yet be a success’

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Ann WroeAnn Wroe

‘Sudden appearings and disappearings mark all the early flowers of spring’

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 Books and arts

Philip McCosker Free 
God and Mystery: experience through metaphor and drama
David Brown

Where can we experience God? In this stimulating if at times frustrating book, David Brown, Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, wants to open our senses to experience ...

       
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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