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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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Cardinal?s man at work Free An interview with Stuart Wilson Cardinal Murphy-O?Connor wants to restructure the diocese of Westminster. The Tablet?s deputy editor, Austen Ivereigh, met the man entrusted with the task...	The Mass: no way back Free John Jay Hughes Elena Curti?s article last week on the old rite of Mass impelled an American priest and church historian to set down his recollections of the past...
God help ZimbabweBy a special correspondent Opposition to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is mounting and spreading. Yet despite the ruin of his country, he still shows no willingness to step down. What will come first: change or chaos?...	Faith, bortsch and charityAlexandra Hudson At the official level, relations between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox remain cold. But a visitor to Moscow found more hopeful signs elsewhere...

How to be a missionaryEdward Stourton What drives the Christian missionary? A BBC broadcaster and presenter set himself to find out the true story. He came to some surprising conclusions...	The CAP stays onGeorge Gelber After three weeks of hard bargaining, the EU has agreed to reform the Common Agricultural Policy. But poor countries should pause before clapping...
Salute these heroesColin Murphy The Special Olympics for disabled athletes were a welcome ?sign of contradiction? in Ireland...

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling

The day after the publication of the fifth Harry Potter book was a Sunday and we went to Mass. When the two families sitting in front of us got up to go to Communion, I saw a couple ...

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