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Reining in Caritas

Duncan MacLaren

It is one of the most important humanitarian groups in the world, supported by legions of volunteers and donors. But now the Vatican has moved to bring it further under control of Rome. One of Caritas’ former secretary generals explains how this could jeopardise the organisation’s work Free 

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A relationship in need of repair Free 

It is only three months since an international symposium on clerical child abuse was held in Rome, causing many observers to believe that the Church was beginning to understand the full scale of the scandal. There were wise words from Mgr Charles Scicluna, ...

So close, yet so different

In Britain, the anniversary of the day 67 years ago that hostilities ceased in Europe slipped by this week with scarcely a mention in the media. Across the English Channel, by contrast, it was marked in France by a public holiday, as it is every year. ...

Battle for religious freedom is far from over
Lord Alton gives the 2012 Tyburn Lecture

The prophet Isaiah reminds us that you should never forget "the rock from which you are hewn." And in the Book of Deuteronomy we are told to "remember the days of old; ...

Vatican conference tackles trafficking
England and Wales bishops host one-day symposium

On Tuesday the bishops of England and Wales and the Vatican's Justice and Peace office, in conjunction with the British embassy to the Holy See, hosted a conference on ...

 Features

 Columnists

David BlairDavid Blair

‘All the pent-up emotion of a generational struggle lies behind this crisis’

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Sara Maitland

‘Neil’s crook sits in an ingenious tube glued on to the quad bike, rather than being carried’

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 Books and arts

How a religion was born Free 
In the Shadow of the Sword: the battle for global empire and the end of the ancient world
Tom Holland

The period of European history spanning, broadly speaking, the fifth to the ninth centuries of our era, used to be labelled the Dark Ages. Today, most historians prefer the term ...

       
Errant Knights need to show some humility
Elena Curti

Precisely why has the British branch of the Knights of Malta had a huge falling out over ...

Nuncio is nudging the bishops
Christopher Lamb

Having brought about considerable improvement in previously difficult relations between ...


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