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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

Your mother should know Free Peter Stanford When is a child no longer a child? At 14, when she?s offered an abortion, as mother Maureen Smith found out. Her protest could make her the Gillick of her day...	Beauty and the priestDaniel O?Leary The arc of a rainbow, a field of poppies, the colour purple - all of them mirrors, as St Paul says, of the brightness of the Lord. They help point the way to God...
The missing ingredientPeter Hennessy Members of select committees must raise their game if they are to hold to account ministers they don?t trust. The balance of power in Westminster might improve...	The problem of the poorFrancis McDonagh The late Dom H?lder C?mara made the most deprived people his priority. Five years after his death, supporters fear his successor is abandoning that legacy...

One faith and many identitiesJohn Arnold Who are our parishioners? What are their needs? One diocese set out to discover the answers with an ambitious listening project...	All jesting aside?Ann Wroe
A generation in distressNicholas Pyke	Nitty-gritty and other errorsJohn Morrish

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Sean McDonagh

We?ll reap what we sow

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The Da Vinci enigma Free
Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind
Charles Nicholl

"He would arrive early, climb up on to the scaffolding, and set to work," wrote a witness to the painting of The Last Supper in Milan. "Sometimes he ...

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