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A long slow goodbye Free

Friendships between the leaders of nations can be as important as shared interests. So when David Cameron and Barack Obama stand side by side at a White House press conference as they did this week, commentators examine body language as closely as ...

Vatican must sharpen its pitch

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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

The Church, Aids and condoms Free Klaus Küng

This week experts from around the world gathered in Vienna for the 18th International Aids Conference. Writing in the German daily “Die Tagespost” last weekend, the bishop of the Austrian city of Sankt Pölten took stock of the evolving issues surrounding HIV and Aids and the urgent need for the Church to develop its response to them. ...

Bah t’at to MassPaul Routledge

A walk over the moors of West Yorkshire symbolised in one afternoon what the Catholic Church in England is like: recusant roots, Irish influence from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and now twenty-first-century congregations of people from all over the world *Myddelton Lodge, Ilkley, in the West Riding, where the Myddelton family defied the law to keep the faith alive. Photo: Savills...

Ordered, transformed universeLewis Ayres

Pope Benedict’s early studies of St Augustine of Hippo permeate much of his subsequent thought, most clearly demonstrated in his rejection of the idea that the Second Vatican Council marked a rupture in church history in favour of its acceptance as part of an unfolding of mystery...

From the beginningDaniel McCarthy

Each of the three prayers assigned to this Sunday addresses a different aspect of life: Creation, the human person and our social, specifically ecclesial, context, writes Daniel McCarthy. Each prayer then maps out the successive steps of development as God coaxes Creation to its fullness...

Still too little, too lateThomas Patrick Doyle Last week the Vatican issued its revised norms for dealing with cases of clerical sex abuse. It says they are an important and progressive step towards justice. However a canon lawyer who has campaigned for many years on behalf of abuse survivors is not convinced ...	Hungry for a changeLiz Dodd Food security was the theme for this year’s National Justice and Peace Conference. Delegates debated organic farming, genetically modified crops and – at an event that attracted no Bishops to attend – criticised the Church’s approach to the environment ...
Creation made fleshDaniel O’Leary Pope John Paul II wrote of the Mass as a cosmic event, with its fearful darkness and irresistible brightness. The Eucharist is indeed a reminder that all are God’s body by virtue of Creation, a fact finally revealed in the Incarnation...	A walk with the childrenChris Rosser
Our 'Goldilocks' orbitGuy Consolmagno

Columnists

Catherine Pepinster

‘The map of deprivation does not always fit the map of charitable endeavour’

Christopher Howse

‘The unusual thing about Fr Radcliffe is that he combines brevity and lucidity’

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Their strength was their faith Free
The Last Banana: dancing with the watu
Shelby Tucker

At Cape Town Airport, the departure board flickered “delayed 8 hours” against my flight. The Icelandic volcano was doing its malign work and I would need to curl up on ...

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