| The way to a green theology Free The citizens of Britain, like those of other Western countries, think it normal to fly abroad on holiday, sometimes several times a year. They think it normal for families to own several cars. They timetable their lives around rapid travel and high ... | Israel?s conduct unbecoming |
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Features
Soul searching Free John CornwellEurope?s bishops have called for more debate following this week?s EU decision to fund embryonic stem-cell research. But if that debate is to be meaningful, it must include new consideration of the ?ensoulment? of human life...
|  The rise of Shia Free Anthony O'MahonyMilitary power in Lebanon, clerical power in Iraq and political influence in Syria: the resurgence of the side of Islam subjugated for centuries throughout the Middle East now appears unstoppable... |
Lives in the war zonesJohn LandyCivilians caught up in the conflict in Lebanon and Israel are seeing their cities and villages bombed and their worlds turned upside down. Here, the experiences of two families ? one Lebanese, one Israeli ? reveal how ordinary people are struggling to maintain a sort of normality in the recent outbreak of violence...
| Our neighbour, HezbollahJohn LandyThe Stella Maris Carmelite monastery in Haifa is built over Elijah?s cave. Most years, thousands come from inside and outside Israel for the festivities. This month, just four people turned up: Hezbollah?s rocket attacks have brought fear to a place more accustomed to peace...
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The Lord is our steersmanDaniel McCarthyThe metaphor of God as our guide and rudder in the journey of life appears in the Collect for this Sunday?s Mass, drawing on imagery used since the early days of the Church. Daniel McCarthy examines its sources and how it exemplifies the tradition of the renewal of prayers...
|  Embrace the new PoloniaDenis MacShane They are hard-working, well educated and Catholic, according to a former Minister for Europe, who says that rather than fear immigration we should celebrate the arrival of Poles in Britain as one of the best opportunities the country has ever had... |
After the pain, justiceCatherine ScottThe full reports from East Timor?s truth and reconciliation hearings are being released to the public as a spur to ending factional violence in the south-east Asian nation that has suffered nearly 25 years of occupation...
| The agony of Dr WilliamsTheo HobsonSeen by many as a reformer when he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002, Rowan Williams has had to make hard choices between liberalism and authority in striving to hold together the Anglican Communion...
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Bid them welcomepatricia carrollBaptism is an important day in a child?s life, but it is more than just a day: the parents and the parish have vital and continuing roles in passing on the living faith...
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Columnists
 Nicholas Pyke?Responsibility for the gardens is shared by all the pupils and fizzy drinks are banned?  Michael McCarthy?Has the Good Lord made a creature more exquisite than this long-legged wader??
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Books and arts
Good luck: a virtue of an emperor Free
Caesar: the life of a colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
Dignity, always dignity," purrs Gene Kelly at the beginning of Singing in the Rain as he explains his greatness to fawning reporters. But what we actually see on 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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