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POPE BENEDICT APOLOGISES

William Crawley and guests debate the week's religious and ethical news and explore the world of culture and ideas. Including News.

The child abuse crisis facing the Catholic Church in Ireland is now headline news around the world. Pope Benedict used his historic Pastoral Letter to Irish Catholics to apologise to the victims of clerical abuse. He says the credibility of Ireland's Catholics bishops has been undermined by their failure to deal properly with abuse allegations. Where does that leave Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, who is facing mounting pressure to resign?

1 hour, 45 minutes

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Sun 21 Mar 2010 08:30
麻豆社 Radio Ulster & 麻豆社 Radio Foyle

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Chapters

  • POPE BENEDICT'S PASTORAL LETTER: ANALYSIS

    Pope Benedict has used his historic Pastoral Letter to apologise to the victims and survivors of clerical abuse in Ireland.

    Duration: 10:41

  • REDEMPTION: A CELTIC PASSION

    When attempts are made to bring Catholic and Protestant religious communities together, it is often for a theological conversation. But could music be a better language than theology?

    Duration: 07:06

  • 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTANCE OF GOD

    The success of the new atheism movement as a publishing phenomenon is the backdrop to a new novel with a title that sounds suspiciously like a philosophy textbook - but this is comic fiction.

    Duration: 10:47

  • IRELAND'S CLERICAL ABUSE CRISIS: THE DEBATE

    Pope Benedict used his long-awaited pastoral letter to offer an apology to the victims of clerical sex abuse. And he reserved some pretty strong words for Ireland's Catholic bishops.

    Duration: 34:49

  • ANTHONY JULIUS & THE JEW-HATERS

    He was the lawyer who took on the Holocaust denier David Irving in the courts and won. Now, the lawyer and scholar has produced a massive study of English Anti-semitism.

    Duration: 13:15

  • EMERGENT THEOLOGY: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE

    In the Western world the idea of having church experience without a church building or traditional structures is growing in popularity.

    Duration: 05:24

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Mar 2010 08:30
    麻豆社 Radio Ulster & 麻豆社 Radio Foyle