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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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Choose life, not death Free Aidan O'Neill There is a growing consensus in the Catholic Church against use of the death penalty. But in the United States a top Catholic judge has voiced a totally opposite opinion. He added that US judges who thought capital punishment immoral should resign. Justice Scalia?s viewpoint is here criticised by a QC at the Scottish Bar....	Colombia's peace islandAusten Ivereigh Colombia is locked into a seemgly endless conflict between paramilitaries and guerrillas. A Colombian bishop recently in London told The Tablet's executive editor that hopes of peace depend o the people taking and saying 'no' to the gun. And he has a model to prove it can be done - the town of Mogotes....
Trapped on the streetsAnnabel Miller On the streets of Bristol every night, more than 100 prostitutes are for hire. Almost all are addicted to drugs. The Tablet's reporter-at-large has been speaking to an Anglican sister involved in a project to help the girls, and to local police....	What lies beneathAnn Wroe

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The great themes behind a religious revolution Free
The Early Reformation on the Continent
Owen Chadwick
It is becoming increasingly difficult to write a good book on the Reformation. The historical debate is now so sophisticated, and the body of published work so vast, that any work of ...

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