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Should a pope resign?

Robert Mickens

Being elected head of the Catholic Church has always been considered a life-long appointment. As John Paul II remains in hospital, some cardinals are in a quandary: has the moment come for him to step down? Free 

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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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Jim Richards

Free but not so easy

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Lionel Blue

?I fantasised about households where cross words never blighted anyone?s lips?

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The encounters that cause sparks to fly Free 
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, ...

       
Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb

According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ...

Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...

The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor

"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...


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