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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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John Paul?s Fatima secret Free John Cornwell The Pope?s belief that he was saved from an assassin?s bullet to fulfil his destiny has enormous implications for the Church, says the author of a new biography...	Grant them eternal rest Free Eamon Duffy The Reformation cut off the living from the dead. But Catholic prayers for the departed are not about fear, or appeasement. They form part of a web of love...
A Jesuit boy, through and throughThe Tablet interview Terry Wogan He?s one of radio?s most successful stars, but Terry Wogan?s proudest of Children in Need, the BBC?s charity appeal which begins its 25th season this week. Here he talks to Sue Gaisford about fund-raising, family and how Catholicism moulded him...	A Queen perplexedPeter Hennessy Britain?s baffling Constitution has gone through seismic change following New Labour?s reforms. Could another change mean our judges become more like America?s?...

America?s crucial ?swing?Robert Worcester The Catholic vote may well have made all the difference in the close race for the White House. The more frequent the Mass-goer, the more they liked Bush...	Someone to watch over themSue Delaney Mass-goers complain crying babies are distracting but, rather than be irritated, there are ways in which people can help...
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The Pope in Winter: the dark face of John Paul II’s papacy
John Cornwell

Not since the early Middle Ages has the Catholic Church seemed so amorphous, formless and anomic. It is struggling out of one historic era towards a new one - the shape of ...

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