Alive in that dawn ?

The Archbishop of Canterbury will travel to Rome later this month to meet Pope Benedict XVI, marking the fortieth anniversary of the groundbreaking trip to Rome by Archbishop Michael Ramsey. A seminarian of the time recalls the remarkable mood of those days...

Good King Wenceslas

Over the next few weeks, readers are asked to nominate their favourite Christmas carols. Before the final poll, contributors argue the case for the carol they love the best....

In the poppy fields of Helmand

As the country falls silent tomorrow to remember those who fell in conflict, thousands of servicemen and women face another hot and hostile day amid the shifting sands of Britain?s Afghan policy...

High price of tea

In a country where poverty is widespread the Tamils who work on the tea plantations of Sri Lanka are the poorest of the poor. And the economic odds appear to be stacked to ensure that they stay that way...

Unsung soldier, unknown muse

He died during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, one of 21,000 in that suicidal tragedy with no known grave. Yet, as the younger brother of Siegfried, Hamo Sassoon?s death helped inspire some of the greatest verse on war, the tragedy of which we reflect on this weekend...

Pay now, live later

There is no time to delay: unless the international community unites in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, humanity will suffer irrevocably. The issue is a moral one that asks every country throughout the world to examine its collective conscience...

Our disappearing world

From a city deep in the Amazonian rainforest, from where the outside world is reachable only by river, a Jesuit missionary makes a personal plea to put caring for the planet at the heart of pastoral work...

Freed from snares

Through God?s removal of things that are hostile to what is truly in our interests, we are able to cooperate in our own redemption. Daniel McCarthy explains how in this week?s prayer is an understanding of the link between the freeing of the mind and the pursuit of what God wants for us...

Light for those in dark times

This weekend we gather to remember those who died in war. Here a parish priest reflects on ways that the church community can help people to deal with the pain of death and mourning...

Best of the summer wine

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