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Latest issue: 6 September 2002
Last updated: 11 February 2012

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Where was God on 11 September?

James Martin

The terrorist attacks on the United States a year ago branded horrible images on to the world?s consciousness. How to come to grips with the mystery of evil and redeem those memories? An associate editor of America magazine seeks an answer. Free 

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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

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Libby Purves

What do all the flowers mean?

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EDITOIAL

The priesthood: unfinished business

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 Books and arts

A great warrior for the Roman Catholic cause Free 
Old Thunder: a life of Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Pearce
Hilaire Belloc is everywhere and yet he is nowhere. He is a mighty presence in secondhand bookshops, but a very thin one in the major chain stores. Most people will know and may have ...

       
Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti

The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ...

Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb

According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ...

Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...


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