| Confidence in the law Free Dissatisfaction with the law's treatment of victims has prompted radical proposals from both Government and Opposition this week. The Tory leader, David Cameron, has responded to ... | Ancient and modern |
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Features
 Spain?s identity crisis Free Jimmy BurnsThirteen years on from the last papal visit to Spain, Benedict XVI arrives in Valencia next Saturday. He will find a nation increasingly secular and at odds with the Church in matters of marriage, mass consumerism and religious education... |  De profundisRichard MajorIn a powerful and personal polemic, an Anglican priest based in America here laments what he argues is the death of the Episcopal Church. But there is hope, he says, in a new and ecumenically open Anglican Communion speaking with one voice... |
Escape from a black and white pastRichard RodriguezThe number of children born to Americans and immigrants from different backgrounds and cultures is growing all the time, and the old notions of race are slowly disappearing. There is a lesson here for the Church ? if it wants to hear it...
| Liberating lightDaniel McCarthy OSBThe opening prayer for this Sunday expresses simply, directly and powerfully that the way out of darkness is through the truth and radiant splendour of God, who is the guardian of our souls and, in loving us, makes us children of light...
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Not just one brief, shining momentPaul VallelyA year after billions roared for Africa, much has been achieved. Debt has been slashed, and aid boosted. But there is much still to do, especially in the reform of unfair trade, which would make the biggest difference of all...
| America?s summer of discontentGerard BakerThe default mood of the United States is optimism, but this year the gloom and disillusionment are almost tangible. It would seem to provide a golden opportunity for the Democrats ? but that is not necessarily the case...
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Diplomatic shiftRobert MickensWith the early announcement of the Vatican?s new Secretary of State, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is once more in the ascendant in Rome where many now predict doctrine will be paramount...
| For the love of a sonVictoria Combe A year ago next Friday, 52 Londoners lost their lives and hundreds were injured by suicide bombers. One mother stood for all in that day?s grief. Marie Fatayi-Williams tells of her loss and her faith...
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For the love of footballDenis CampbellThere is religious fervour in the beautiful game and commercialism aplenty, says The Tablet?s reporter in Germany, Denis Campbell, but the US fans must stick to the vocabulary...
| Get ready to make a holy promiseAnn WylieWhen couples come for marriage preparation, there are real opportunities for a
deepening of the faith, despite all the other issues they inevitably have on their minds
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It?s OK to mention George W?James Martin? Washington, that is. He and the other Founding Fathers, after decades in the historical wilderness, are being rediscovered by a new generation of Americans...
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Columnists
 Libby Purves?There is a loneliness at the heart of our busy, affluent society?  Laurence Freeman?Aborigines had been listening to the Word of God sounding at the heart of creation?
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Books and arts
Wrestling with an unseen God Free
The Man Who Went Into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas
Byron Rogers
S. Thomas - Ronald to hardly anyone - lived latterly in westerly Wales, in a cold damp cottage, from which the ... |
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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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