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So far and yet so near

Rupert Shortt

One is the ruler of a global congregation recently put at nearly 1.2 billion, the other a nominal head of a worldwide communion of some 80 million. Next week, Joseph Ratzinger and Rowan Williams will meet during the papal visit to Britain. There is much to unite these seemingly disparate figures Free 

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A friend, and even a guide Free 

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chose his title of Benedict XVI upon his election as Pope in 2005, it was widely seen as imparting a distinctly European mission to his papacy. St Benedict is the patron saint of Europe, the cradle of the Catholic faith. ...

Retirement isn’t working

Secularism - good or bad?
Archbishop Nichols and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor take opposing views

The two most senior clerics in England and Wales set out on the same day contrasting visions of the threats posed to Christianity by secularism.

In a lecture at ...

Clare Short: ‘Church gave me best of values that have continued into my political and adult life'
Former Labour minister offers candid and fond reflection on her Catholic upbringing

I've chosen as my theme the link between a Catholic childhood and radical politics. I fear this may be slightly self-indulgent and autobiographical but there are some points ...

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Catherine Pepinster

‘Benedict’s addresses abroad are conceptual. This is a professor Pope, not a finger-wagger’

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Robert Mickens

Letter from Rome

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 Books and arts

Confessions of a gambler Free 
A Journey
Tony Blair
No wonder Tony Blair wanted to convert to Catholicism. He has a penchant for confession. Only in this case he has escaped the ­privacy of the ecclesiastical confessional and confessed ...

       
Bishop Davies: leading or dividing?
Christopher Lamb

He has only worn the mitre for 18 months but Bishop Mark Davies has already made a big impression ...

Without justice, charity is undermined
Abigail Frymann

There comes a time when you have to stop pulling bodies out of the water and go upriver ...

Errant Knights need to show some humility
Elena Curti

Precisely why has the British branch of the Knights of Malta had a huge falling out over ...


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