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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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Wedded friendships Free Alan Bray Spiritual same-sex friendships have been celebrated in the history of the Church with rites that gave them a standing akin to marriage. That is the belief of an ecclesiastical historian and honorary research fellow of Birkbeck College in the University of London, who here presents some of the evidence for his view....	*Lemmings en vacances*Alain Woodrow At this time of the year France goes on holiday - on the same day. It is like the migration of lemmings, says our Paris correspondent. The English have no justification in feeling superior, since it was they who invented the French Riviera....
Eastern Europe's royalty in waitingJonathan Luxmoore Does the return to power of Bulgaria's king in parliamentary elections mean that Europe's deposed royal houses could enjoy a resurgence? Our Warsaw correspondent does not rule it out....	The map on the station wallDenis Tuohy

A tale of two roadsMargaret Hebblethwaite

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That learned tongue: dead letter or living root? Free
Latin: of the empire of a sign
Françoise Waquet

Having been for so long at the centre of European culture and education, Latin at the beginning of the twenty-first century seems finally to have lost its privileged position ...

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