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The blame for bloody Sunday Free

Lord Saville’s comprehensive report into the events in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 has come 38 years too late. Had the Bloody Sunday massacre of 13 innocent civil-rights demonstrators by members of the Parachute Regiment been properly investigated ...

Secularism: Friend or Foe?

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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

‘He was regarded by the people as “their own bishop”‘Terry O’Keeffe

One of the best-known photographs taken on Bloody Sunday is of the body of 17-year-old Jackie Duddy being carried through a crowd of paratroopers with Fr Edward Daly in front, holding out his blood-stained white handkerchief. Ever since, this photo has been seen as summing up the catastrophe for Derry citizens that was Bloody Sunday....

Life that bears fruitDaniel McCarthy

These prayers present two processes whereby the faithful grow in the divine life. One involves the divine self-gift and their sharing in divine life. The other, writes Daniel McCarthy, concerns the process of their maturation in this new life so that they become transparent as light ...

Among the believersJames Roberts

It is generally held that the Qur’an teaches that Judaism and Christianity must submit to Islam. Here a Christian scholar, Michel Cuypers, tells James Roberts of an alternative reading which could bring new mutual respect between the three Abrahamic faiths ...

Vocation in an ever-changing worldMichael Holman

Many fewer men are discerning a calling to the priesthood than 50 years ago. As the Year for Priests draws to a close, the British Provincial of the Jesuits reflects on changes that have become necessary in their formation – and what has stayed the same...

Truth but no reconciliationChris Ryder The ‘definitive’ report on what happened on Bloody Sunday in Derry nearly 40 years ago was published this week. But while relatives of the victims feel vindicated, the Saville report will fuel what has become a grievance industry in Northern Ireland...	Teach us to praySean Wales For both the individual and the wider parish community, the life of prayer can remain blocked at a superficial level. One South African parish set up a school of prayer, to introduce parishioners to the riches of the traditions available to us...
Blessed harrowing hourDaniel O'Leary Serious physical suffering causes not only despair but a crisis of self-doubt – a questioning search for the true self before it is too late. Yet amid the turmoil of the here and now there emerges a deep consciousness of God...	A place to map out the universeJohn Cornwell Cardinal Newman’s The Idea of a University had a profound influence on figures as diverse as James Joyce and Edward Said. Here Newman’s latest biographer explains the genesis of the Idea and why it has endured...
Dosh and poshJohn Morrish

Columnists

David Blair

‘If Israel lifts the blockade, Hamas would claim a triumph’

Ann Wroe

‘You feel very far indeed from Pinner and close to Paradise’

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Formidable keeper of the flame Free
Cosima Wagner: the lady of Bayreuth
Oliver Hilmes, trans. Stewart Spencer

A storm raged on the night that Richard Wagner died in a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. His wife, Cosima, stripped off her clothes, clinging to her husband’s corpse ...

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