Pope Benedict XVIs interview

Pope Benedict XVIs interview with Bayerische Rundfunk (ARD), ZDF, Deutsche Welle and Vatican Radio. ...

Dilemma of gay adoption

Five American states now forbid discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, leading to the closure of a Catholic adoption agency after its board?s decision that they could not square samesex parenting with the teaching of Rome. Is there a way forward?...

True face of martyrdom

Dying for one?s faith, previously associated with acts of courage, is now tainted in the public mind by the claims of suicide bombers to be martyrs for Islam. How did such perverted thinking emerge, and can martyrdom be reclaimed as an honourable act?...

Journey's end

For tens of thousands trapped at airport check-in queues, days of carefree travel seem truly over. But if that?s true for literal journeys, it?s even more so for metaphorical ones, according to a leading philosopher. So what is life if it?s a long and winding road no more?...

The power of positive thinking

Next month the Pope returns to his native Bavaria. To mark the visit, Benedict XVI was interviewed by four German broadcast journalists. This is an edited version of their conversation, in which he stressed that Catholicism is not about prohibition...

Caring for God's acre

In the secret lanes of Shropshire, Richard Abbott uncovers the glories of country churchyards and a plan to save these sanctuaries of native blooms and grasses...

Church Down Under comes up for air

When Cardinal Murphy-O?Connor arrives in Australia next week, he will find a country much changed from the days when warnings against ?Godless Moscow? and ?papist Rome?were commonplace...

Blessed are the reconcilers

The many divisions, global and local, in the world today require a particular type of peacemaker, someone who is able to absorb the negative and hostile and transform it through love...

From him all good things come

The opening prayer for the twentieth Sunday in ordinary time expresses our desire to love God above all things and to be transformed by him, but acknowledges that our desire is exceeded by his abundance. Daniel McCarthy reveals the meanings behind the deceptively simple translation...

Home's many mansions

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