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A Catholic word in your ear, Mr President

Michael Sean Winters

A new kind of Catholic Democrat is emerging in America’s corridors of power – young, politically committed and often with the same community organising background as the President himself. So who are these new church advocates with a direct line to Obama? Free 

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A place for dissent Free 

Something of a consensus exists among church historians that, had the Vatican treated Martin Luther and his circles in a more conciliatory manner at the start of what became the Reformation, it might not have happened. Many of the theological points ...

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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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Richard RodriguezRichard Rodriguez

‘When someone calls himself Hispanic, you are listening to an American’

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Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘The solution is an immediate by-election wherever an MP has dishonoured his office’

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 Books and arts

Brighteningthe Celtic twilight Free 
Blood and Mistletoe: the history of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton

The Druids have a sort of sublim­­­­i­­nal­ presence in the British psyche. On occasions like the National Eisteddfod of Wales or the celebration of the ...

       
Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti

The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ...

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 ...


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