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Bishop of Aberdeen to apologise for child sex abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School
Sunday 04 August 2013
BBC investigation heard accounts from former pupils of physical violence, rape and sexual assault
Album review: Johnny Dowd, Do the Gargon (Mother Jinx)
Friday 02 August 2013
Album of the Week: A toe-tapping mix of tortured grooves and Texas boogie
Book review: Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening, By David Hendy
Thursday 01 August 2013
The school-day definition of noise was "unorganised sound". Another has it as sound "out of place". The word itself may come from the Latin noxia, meaning "harmful things". Music, classics masters, librarians, the Noise Abatement Society and all but the most liberal parents, were united in thinking it was A Bad Thing.
'Who am I to judge gay people?' Pope Francis marks shift in Catholic attitude to homosexuality on Brazil trip
Monday 29 July 2013
'If someone is gay and is looking for the Lord, who am I to judge him? You should not discriminate against or marginalise these people, and the Catechism says this as well'
Coalition will support Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s plan for credit unions, says Vince Cable
Sunday 28 July 2013
Vince Cable is to throw the Government’s weight behind the Archbishop of Canterbury’s drive to build up credit unions so that fewer people with money problems turn to payday lenders like Wonga.
Pope Francis ends first foreign trip with mass for crowd of three million people at Copacabana Beach
Sunday 28 July 2013
Overnight pilgrims camped out on the famous stretch of beach ahead of a Mass to be celebrated there later on Sunday
Julian Knight: Payday loans need regulation, not just divine intervention
Saturday 27 July 2013
As the Archbishop of Canterbury says, credit unions aren't yet ready to step into the breach
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby rows back on war on Wonga: ‘Loan sharks are worse’
Friday 26 July 2013
Archbishop embarrassed over revelation Church of England invests in payday lender
Archbishop of Canterbury confesses: Church’s Wonga investments are 'very embarrassing', says Welby
Friday 26 July 2013
Most Rev Justin Welby promises he will ‘make sure it doesn’t happen again’
Humble Pope Francis's visit to a Rio slum gives residents fresh hope
Thursday 25 July 2013
‘It’s important the Pope is coming… hopefully things will get better’
Wonga boss welcomes Archbishop of Canterbury's challenge
Thursday 25 July 2013
Errol Damelin: 'Wonga welcomes competition from any quarter'
War on Wonga: We're putting you out of business, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tells payday loans company
Thursday 25 July 2013
Wonga insists it would welcome competition from credit unions
Wanted: Investigative reporter keen to attack ex-Scientologists for the Church's in-house magazine
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Freedom called a group of leading former members 'a posse of lunatics'
The Pope in Brazil: Francis tells Catholics to resist “idols” of money, power, pleasure
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Thousands packed into the cavernous Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida to greet their fellow South American
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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