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Robert Mickens and Elena CurtiA papal visit to Britain, the creation of a handful of new cardinals, the canonisation of
Australia’s first saint and the beatification of Cardinal Newman as well as other likely events
will make this year a highly significant one for the Catholic Church worldwide Free
From the editor’s desk
| Clericalism’s malign influence Free The crisis surrounding the sexual abuse of children by priests has been used, particularly in the United States, to raise a hue and cry against homosexuality among the clergy. The fault, in other words, was too much tolerance. This illiberal scapegoating ... | Moral vacuum in China |
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Features
Towards a humble Church Free Timothy RadcliffeLast week we published the first part of a talk given by the former Master of the Dominicans to
priests of the Diocese of Dublin, in which he highlighted the fear and anger caused by the
revelations of child abuse. Here, he asks how the Church can rid itself of the clericalism besetting it...
|  Hold on tightThe last year ended with a number of unresolved situations, from Afghanistan to global warming,
and we now embark on a new decade of change, from politics to liturgy, and celebration, from
music to football. Here, our experts examine what 2010 may hold at home and abroad... |
 In the steps of the cardinalChristopher LambWith John Henry Newman’s beatification due to take place in September, places associated with his life take on a new significance. For those wishing to deepen their devotion and knowledge of
the greatest English convert, The Tablet has constructed a Newman pilgrimage trail... | Immortal glory restoredDaniel McCarthyThe revelation of Christ as the light of the nations recounted in the Scriptures also reveals the goal and so the consummation of all history in Christ. The prayers help us to respond to this mystery, writes Daniel McCarthy, so that the dispositions of our heart can be transformed....
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Make a gift of your ministryJames LeachmanIt is all too easy for Catholics to forget that they are active participants in the Mass and to look to the presiding priest as acting alone in leading the assembly’s worship. Here, a teacher of liturgy describes how Christ is present in the ministering of our liturgical assemblies...
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Columnists
Margaret Hebblethwaite‘I had the excitement of an explorer, discovering what is known only by the local people’ David Blair‘Al-Qaeda is looking for new havens, and Yemen may be its favoured alternative to Pakistan’
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Books and arts
Oiled wheels of Eastern power Free
The Arabs: a history
Eugene Rogan
ooking out on the Middle East, where culture and politics seem to have serious difficulties with change, it is hard not to wish that we knew a bit more about the past, the roots ... |
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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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