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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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Zimbabwe?s good shepherd Free The Tablet Interview Pius Ncube Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo, is Robert Mugabe?s most fearless critic. He talks to James Roberts about his country and his battle with the dictator...	Marriage is not just a family affairVarious What is life like for married people today? What are their needs and how can the Church offer them effective support? Listening 2004 was set up by the English bishops to find out what should be done to encourage family life. Here we record what some couples involved in the movement, Marriage Encounter, said about their own lives...
Straight-talking ChurchAusten Ivereigh Take one conference, 450 people and three bishops, and the result is a host of imaginative, innovative ideas for getting the message of faith across ? loud and clear...	A disaster for dialogueMichael Prior The author, who died last week, warns that the Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee?s decision to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is a grave mistake...

Keeping political faithBeth Breeze After sleaze, scandals and recent inquiries, politics risks being dismissed as a noble calling. Could young people be persuaded otherwise?...	The future?s the burning issueRon Hoad Older parishioners often find change unsettling. But there must be clear plans, not just half-hearted stopgaps...
The day the wind blew away my caresJonathan Tulloch	No bow tie and no BistoPeter Stanford
A culture of violenceNicholas Pyke	It?s what countsJohn Morrish
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Himself Alone: David Trimble and the ordeal of Unionism
Dean Godson

Prior to the 1998 Belfast Agreement, all attempts to solve the Northern Ireland problem had aimed at isolating the extremists and men of violence by winning the support of the moderate ...

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