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Rome?s new document on men and women shows that feminists and the Church have more in common than perhaps either realises, but Catholic theology has yet to describe the sacramental nature of women 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 ...

Features

Homes fit for local heroes Free Elena Curti Londoners who cannot afford a home of their own live in the shadow of the wealthy world of Canary Wharf. An enterprising priest has devised a way to help them...	Pinochet unmaskedHugh O?Shaughnessy An American investigation has exposed the dubious dealings of the former Chilean military dictator?s regime. There are lessons for his backers and the Vatican...
On the role of women This is an abridged version of the Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world...	Healing wounds of warPatrick Murphy Nearly 60 years on, a one-woman campaign has prompted remarkable reconciliation between former British prisoners of war and their Japanese captors...

Strangers of the psalmsMalcolm Goldsmith When people suffer dementia, it is a challenge to fellow parishioners. But it can mean rewards too...	That feeling in my bonesFiona Campbell
Not so modernNicholas Pyke	Fruits and herbs for MaryRose Prince

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A nation at the crossroads Free
The Turks Today
Andrew Mango

Whither Turkey? A hundred years ago most British observers would have replied “Nowhere”. Throughout the nineteenth century, many western European observers, including John Henry ...

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