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The correct response to abuse Free

Weeks before he was elected Pope in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spoke in a Good Friday meditation of “filth in the Church”, a remark interpreted as a denunciation of those involved in clerical child sex abuse. Cardinal Ratzinger had ...

Brown’s last-ditch stand

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Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text

The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ...

Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'

Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ...

Features

Class strugglesShirley Williams Reform of education in Britain has done more than most other government policies to change the country. In this excerpt from her memoirs, the Catholic former Labour minister recalls how she and Tony Crosland, brought up in the Plymouth Brethren, pushed the comprehensive ideal...	Changing rite, unchanging truthJohn F. Baldovin It is more than 45 years since Sacrosanctum Concilium was published, urging reform of the liturgy and greater participation of the laity. Here, a leading academic argues that reform has always been a part of Catholic liturgy – and warns against romantic notions about the rite of the Mass ...
A real and unique opportunityIsabel de Bertodano Pope Benedict XVI will make the first papal state visit to Britain next autumn. It will be many months before details will emerge of precisely where he will go and who he will meet. We asked a selection of leading Catholics to tell us their hopes and expectations for the trip...	Role of a creative minorityRobert Mickens Only 20 per cent of the population of the Czech Republic is Catholic but Pope Benedict called on them to transmit traditional Christian values. During his three-day visit last weekend he warned that failure to do so risked cynicism and relativism...

Dignity day by dayJulian Hughes There are major ethical dilemmas facing those caring for people with dementia, according to a report published this week by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Here, a member of the council’s working party looks at their conclusions...	Out of captivityDaniel McCarthy So that Creation would be united with its Creator, Christ chose to advance not power but our human infirmity, writes Daniel McCarthy. Wholly divine, by becoming wholly human, apart from sin, he ensured that we could share in his divinity...
From Byzantium to KentDavid Gwyn Jones and Griselda Mussett A Kent parish found that the idea of mounting of an icon screen – an iconostasis – in their church has proved to be an inspiration that has engaged a wide range of people, and provided many unanticipated challenges...	Round about the mulberry bushRose Prince

Columnists

Paul Vallely

‘Secularists will be shocked by the vigour of Catholic life that the papal visit will reveal’

Christopher Howse

‘Mr Brown is unlikely to greet the Pope as a general election is to intervene’

Books and arts

Slaughter on a grand scale Free
Europe’s Tragedy: a history of the Thirty Years War
Peter H. Wilson

The Thirty Years War was perhaps the key event in the history of seventeenth-century Europe, a bloody, large-scale conflict that created enduring folk memories of horror and destruction. ...

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