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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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Muscular Catholicism Free Annabel Miller Last week, The Tablet?s reporter-at-large met members of the Catholic organisation Opus Dei in England, and heard about the sense of spiritual fulfilment which...	The siege of Holy CrossFeidhlimidh Magennis The peace process in Northern Ireland has to reach down into the local communities. How far there is to go is shown by daily confrontation outside a Catholic primary school in Belfast. Last wee a priest who lectures in St Mary's University College in the city joined the parents and children. THis is his account....
Why small schools workPiers McGrandle In 1998 Cornwall was left with no Catholic secondary school. A group of parents decided to set their own Catholic school in a private home. Three years on, an assistant of The Tablet went to see whether the experiment had succeeded....	Art for God's sakeBrendan McCarthy For centuries the Christian Churches have been great patrons of art. In the contemporary Western world, however, there is a divide. A former BBC producer has been talking to some Christians who are trying to build a bridge across it....

The pleasures of postAnn Wroe

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The myth within the myth of Africa’s white mystic Free
Storyteller: the many lives of Laurens Van der Post
J.D.F. Jones
Reporter: 'I have got this great story'. News editor: 'But is it true?' Reporter: 'Truish'. Journalists argue endlessly between themselves about the boundary between truth and fiction. ...

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