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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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Carey?s tough innings Free Russell Twisk Dr George Carey steps down as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of November. In this interview with the editor-at-large of the Reader?s Digest ? the same journalist who landed him in ?a packet of trouble? at the time of his appointment ? he reflects on his period in office, ties with Rome and the tasks of his successor....	Unfinished businessJohn Wilkins Vatican II?s doctrine is that full authority over the Catholic Church is given to the college of bishops, with and under the pope. But practice has shown that there is far to go to implement the council?s vision. This article is an edited version of addresses given by The Tablet?s editor in Sydney and at the Tablet Open Day....
Martyrs with no namePeter Stanford Theology from a Third World standpoint looks different. What is sin? How to honour the multitude who have been killed for their faith? The writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford heard such reflections from Fr Jon Sobrino in London....	Fallout from the Bali bombKevin Rafferty The bombing outrage in Bali shows that terrorism itself is now global. The editor of an Asian daily paper considers the implications for the region and the world (see leading articles)....

The man who said noAnne Wroe

Oven cleaning for worriersLionel Blue

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Gallery of heroes and rogues: an era of change Free
The Victorians
A. N. Wilson
In the course of his monumental panorama of Victorian England, A.N. Wilson pauses to consider how he might have chosen to live if transported back in time. His answer is: as a country ...

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