Winds of change

Rather than be split by a much-trumpeted schism, the Anglican Communion emerged from its meeting in Tanzania this week as a new kind of twenty-first-century Church, reflecting changes in ecclesial and geopolitical power...

?Through many dangers, toils and snares ...?

When Catholic cardinals meet in conclave they tend to do so under the stern eye of God in the Sistine Chapel...

Golden mean of faith schools

Conservative leader David Cameron is the latest politician to say that he wants his child to attend a church school. At a time of growing anxiety about the malaise affecting Britain?s young people, the author of Yob Nation, himself a teacher, examines why these schools work ? not only for the most privileged but the most deprived children...

This day forward

Critics of liturgical renewal are becoming increasingly vocal in denouncing post-Vatican II changes. But creativity and genius are part of tradition. Reform within the Roman Rite must remain alive to the signs of the times...

In Lent we grow by dying

The search for the real self is central to the Lenten journey. In facing one?s shadows, one begins to know truly the light of one?s soul. It is a Lenten grace when we are able to hold within us, as Jesus did, the tension of such paradoxes...

On the edge of slavery

A statue to commemorate the end of the slave trade is to be unveiled in Haiti on Monday. Yet the enslaving of hundreds of thousands of children living in abject poverty continues in the Caribbean island state...

In thought and deed

In his examination of the opening prayer for the first Sunday of Lent, Daniel McCarthy points to the Lenten exercises by which we contemplate the mystery of Christ and conduct our daily lives in a way worthy of HiM...

Lead kindly light

Lent and its culmination in the solemn liturgies of Easter is the most momentous time of the year for adults but, with its violent undercurrents, it can be one of the most difficult for children, whose path can be eased by the use of the narrative power of the gospel stories...

One fix leads to another

With my colleague Dan Britt from the University of Central Florida, for several years I've been measuring the densities and porosities of meteorites....