|
Sign up to our Weekly Newsletter.
 |
|
Austen IvereighAs many as half a million long-term irregular migrants cannot earn a living legally. Rather than damage the country as the Government claims, a naturalisation programme would benefit Britain, argues the coordinator of the pressure group Strangers into Citizens Free
From the editor’s desk
| A very welcome holy alliance Free The current convergence of interests between the British Government and the Vatican is remarkable. Pope and Prime Minister almost simultaneously pressed the current chairman of the G8, Chancellor Merkel of Germany, to put Africa at the head of the ... | Do what is right for migrants |
|
Features
 Towards a morally sustainable future Free David Miliband In this edited extract from a speech given in Rome this week at a seminar on climate change organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Britain?s Environment Secretary argues that there is an ethical and moral dimension to combating the effects of global warming... | A new breedChristopher LambAny notion of a traditional path to the priesthood no longer applies in today?s world, with men of a variety of ages and backgrounds joining seminaries in encouraging numbers, writes Christopher Lamb. Here, in the first of two articles to mark Vocation Sunday on 29 April, the current generation of priests in training describe how they came to hear the calling, and their experience of formation...
|
Of a quite different orderVictoria CombeThe new religious Community of Our Lady of Walsingham is the order that likes to say ?yes? ? obedience, silent prayer, poverty and the rosary are in, but so are chilling out and trips to the movies. A distinctive departure from other orders, its statutes are designed to use the gifts of women more fully...
|  Russia?s tormented revolutionaryKonstantin Eggert Boris Yeltsin, who died this week, leaves an extraordinary legacy. He understood what was at stake in the fight against Communism, and was brave enough to defeat it. But his mistakes have allowed President Putin to turn the clock back on democratic reform... |
 Temptations of the fleshTerry Prendergast Adultery and suspicion of infidelity are so common in our distrustful culture that half of divorce cases involve evidence provided by private detectives. Opportunity may be part of the cause but so is a failure to understand what relationship means.... | Closure of the eternal waiting roomMichael WalshDiscussion of the existence of limbo, following this month?s publication of the Vatican?s International Theological Commission?s views on the fate of unbaptised babies, is unnecessary, says a Catholic historian: what should be debated is the nature of original sin...
|
Iron Lady of IndiaMian RidgeInspired by the passive resistance of Mahatma Gandhi more than 60 years ago, a young woman is willing to lay down her life by fasting in protest against government-sanctioned human rights abuses rife in north-east India...
|
|
|
Columnists
|
Books and arts
Poetry of yearning and reality Free
Shakespeare the Thinker
A.D. Nuttall
John Keats, who read Shakespeare with uncommon care and intelligence, was convinced that the works and the life of the Bard were intimately connected: "Shakespeare led a life ... |
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
