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Gamekeeper turned pastor

Elena Curti and Margaret Hebblethwaite

As the Church?s keeper of doctrinal correctness for more than a quarter of a century, he was the enforcer to John Paul II?s communicator. Now he is Pope how will Benedict XVI face up to his fragmented flock? Free 

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CHALLENGE OF THE LORD?S VINEYARD Free 

CELEBRATION is the right response to the election of a new Pope. Brass bands played in St Peter?s Square as the bells rang out on Tuesday, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O?Connor has described how champagne corks popped at the cardinals? final dinner ...

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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 ...

 Features

 Columnists

SCAREMONGERING ISN'T SWORKING

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Clifford Longley

?Does rolling news confuse the medium and the message??

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 Books and arts

Emotion and reason: finding the link Free 
The Sacred Neuron: extraordinary new discoveries linking science and religion
John W. Bowker

John Bowker’s latest book, arising from his Henson lectures in Oxford, is one of the most important and enjoyable I have read for some time. He writes with elegance, subtlety and ...

       
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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