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Sexual abuse: a multi-faceted response
Cardinal Levada addresses Rome conference

"Toward Healing and Renewal" is the title given to this Symposium for Catholic Bishops and Religious Superiors on the Sexual Abuse of Minors. For leaders in the Church for whom this ...

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 ...

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Why convert the saved? Free Eugene Fisher The Catholic Church does not support organisations which aim to convert Jews. Nor should it, argues the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the Church believes that Judaism is salvific for Jews....	What does forgiveness mean? The impending release of the murderers of the toddler James Bulger has raised questions about public punishment, retribution and forgiveness. In December 1995, Frances Lawrence's husband Philip, a Catholic headmaster, was murdered outside his London school. She describes her feelings towards Learco Chindamo who murdered him....
A land of blood and poisonHugh O'Shaughnessy Last year in Colombia, there were 70 murders every day - according to government figures. Soldiers, death squads and guerrillas struggle for supremacy in rural areas, and the US-backed Plan Colombia is not helping. A freelance journalist specialising in Latin American affairs reports....	Drop the front pageStephen Bates Britain's tabloid newspapers offer an orgy of sensationalism and trivia. They are often feared to be moulding public opinion, but they could merely be reflecting it, argues the religion and royalty correspondent of the Guardian newspaper....

Look to the Golden RuleCahal B. Daly

Original sin on the beachLionel Blue

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Gods still in the quad: a failed case for unbelief Free
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism
Daniel Harbour

Toulouse 1619. Burning at the stake is Giulio Cesare Vanini, an Italian philosopher. There is nothing particularly surprising about this: he is an ostentatious foreigner with a comical ...

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