Superpower for some

Sixty years after independence, India is rapidly transforming itself from an underdeveloped country into a leading world economy. But the problems of poverty that blighted the country when Pope Paul VI wrote his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio still need radical solutions...

France's dilemma

As the polls open tomorrow in the first round of the French presidential election, the country's voters appear more undecided than in many previous votes about what would be belle for La France...

Sacred or profane?

How profound is people's professed interest in spirituality? Is it a genuine search for God or a quest for personal fulfilment? A conference at Oxford looked at these questions in general and in particular how the modern media responds to them...

Divinely human

The explosive power of God lies in the radical nature of Jesus and his takings on of the three great sufferings of physical pain, the loss of his good name and a sense of ultimate abandonment. To deny his humanity is to deny salvation...

Heaven's above

Plane travel provokes the pianist Stephen Hough into a high-altitude reflection on the infinite value of God's protection...

Hands of friendship

Those with learning disabilities may or may not receive sufficient professional help, and will not neccessarily find the true friends they need. The local church, with the help of a Special Religious Development programme, can help fill this gap...

Words from the heart

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