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The conviction of the ruthless loan shark John Kiely has highlighted the practices of illegal doorstep lenders. These operate in the shadows, but out in the open and perfectly legal are home-credit companies that charge very high rates of interest and flourish when credit is tight Free

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U.S. bishops must back obama Free

President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms are in deep trouble. All over the United States rival lobby groups have argued and sometimes clashed as opponents of the reforms sense they may be on the verge of victory. There may be sufficient votes ...

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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 ...

Features

Come togetherPeter Stanford Christians in the West lack the evangelising zeal and commitment of their counterparts in the East, according to the new Professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University, Daniel Jeyaraj. He told Peter Stanford that it was time that the denominations showed a greater willingness to work for unity ...	Church-State détenteAlain Woodrow A panel of experts is getting comfortable in the Quai d’Orsay where they have been given office space in the Foreign Ministry with a brief both to advise diplomats about religion and to arm them with arguments to help explain France’s policy of laïcité to the wider world...
Ways to wedded blissEdmund Adamus Whether it’s external pressures or internal misunderstandings, marriages often suffer patches when couples’ paths diverge. But help is at hand through the Church’s Celebrate Love seminars developed in Australian parishes a decade ago and available in Britain for the past three years...	Zimbabwe’s parable of Christian witnessChris Chivers Rampant inflation, hunger and struggles with disease have stalked Zimbabwe over the last few years but a recent visitor met Christians in the capital, Harare, and out in the parched countryside whose courage and fortitude bring hope of a new dawn...

Glimpse of a bygone RomeElena Curti A collection of photos on display in a London exhibition capture Rome in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The photographer was a Dominican friar and scholar whose hobby provides a unique record of a city on the brink of change...	Flower powerRichard Abbott Mosaics made of pebbles and petals decorate wells and springs in the Peak District in summer. In the latest in our series on holy wells we look at an ancient custom that has its origins in giving thanks for the blessing of pure water ...
Mary lights our wayDaniel McCarthy The faithful share Christ’s glory only partially on their journey to the Resurrection but, as Daniel McCarthy writes, the Virgin Mary’s bodily Assumption into heaven points the way to their ultimate destination...	Racing uncertaintyDominic Prince

Columnists

Clifford Longley

‘Gift means giving up the pursuit of every last morsel of profit’

Ann Wroe

‘“Dog heaven” presumably teems with rabbits and has walls built of Schmackos’

Books and arts

Easy ride for a difficult writer Free
Muriel Spark: the biography
Martin Stannard

In 1992, Muriel Spark published the first of two projected volumes of autobiography entitled Curriculum Vitae. The book was concise and charmingly written but revealed very little ...

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