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The long-awaited Vatican document on homosexuality in the priesthood, due to be published next week, has been substantially leaked. Here the former Master of the Dominicans assesses what it has to say about gay men and their suitability for holy orders Free

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Capital punishment brutalises society Free

THE FATAL shooting of a female police constable in Bradford, Yorkshire, has reopened the debate about capital punishment. Lord Stevens, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has argued in a newspaper article that the death penalty should ...

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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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Pastor to the dispossessed Free Danielle Vella The Roma are Europe?s largest ethnic minority, and probably its most alienated. A Jesuit priest who has chosen to live among them finds little solidarity shown towards these outcasts of the Continent...	Hearts of darknessStephen Fay Conrad Black?s indictment on fraud charges in the United States last week threw the spotlight on the role of the press lord, a role likened by Stanley Baldwin to that of the harlot wielding power without responsibility. But what about the people who take their shillings?...
Minister of soundThe Tablet Interview Anyone whose church swings to contemporary liturgical sounds will know the award-winning music of Marty Haugen, but few this side of the Atlantic know the man. Ellen Teague went to meet him at one of the workshops he is holding this month in Britain...	Power of the WordHenry Wansbrough Forty years have passed since Dei Verbum, Vatican II?s decree on revelation. Now, the bishops of England, Wales and Scotland have published The Gift of Scripture, which combines traditional interpretation and modern scholarship of the Bible today...

Homosexuality and the priesthoodVatican Documents The Church's document on gay men and the priesthood is due to be published by the Congregation for Catholic Education next week. The following is a translation of the original Latin text which was handed to The Tablet earlier this week...	The paradox of powerNicholas Boyle While many see the United States as avowedly secular in its founding principles, a deeply religious perspective can be discerned that throws new light on today?s intense global anti-Americanism...
Scar on the Spanish psycheJimmy Burns The thirtieth anniversary of the death of the Fascist dictator Francisco Franco sees Spaniards deep in a divisive political debate once more...	Prepare the wayDiana Klein The ?travelling crib? of Advent shows how we need to encounter Christ wherever we are and whoever we are with...

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Clifford Longley

?The drinks industry deserves more than a slapped wrist in this strange affair?

Peter Stanford

?It?s as hard to get a place as an altar server as to get on the First XI?

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The Narnian: the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis
Alan Jacobs

Two irresistible attachments of the heart dominated the greater part of C.S. Lewis’ life. For 30 years, Jack Lewis, as his family knew him, lived with Janie Moore, the mother of ...

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