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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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A multitude of meanings Free Eamon Duffy The Mass today is both fundamentally the same yet radically different from the celebrations of our forefathers. In the first of a new series, a distinguished historian examines changes to the liturgy and to ritual, and how these affect the beliefs at the core of Catholic faith...	Slouching towards disasterMichael McCarthy When the world?s environmental experts met to discuss climate change in Exeter last week, warnings about the plight of the planet were even more dire than expected. As the mercury moves up the thermometer, there seems ? to this writer at least ? one inescapable conclusion...
The spectre of internmentConor Gearty The Government?s proposals for dealing with terrorist suspects by placing them under house arrest means it is seeking to replace one injustice with an even greater one...	A home for JosPhilip Crispin Asylum and immigration are dominating politics. But in Bristol, one parish is ignoring the rhetoric and instead providing help for those fleeing persecution...

A new harvest for AfricaPatrick Nicholson Ethiopia?s destitute farmers are among those whose plight the Make Poverty History campaign highlights. But it?s economic reform that will reap real change...	A celebration of loveRachel Wright Participating in a service for re-affirming marriage vows is more meaningful than a Valentine?s Day card...
The Agony in the GardenLucy Beckett	An eye on the PopeLavinia Byrne

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Holy Fire
Victoria Clark

My wife was recently asked by the accident and emergency department of a London hospital to complete a form requiring her - in addition to the usual enquiries about ethnicity, ...

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