To serve and celebrate

Four Dominican theologians have caused a furore in the Dutch Church with their new booklet, arguing that the Church in future will have to allow ?inspired members of the community? to celebrate the Eucharist. Here, one of the authors explains their beliefs about who should preside...

Black mark for Gordon

The Government has prided itself on its financial prudence and custodianship of the economy during the last decade. Yet its management of the Northern Rock crisis this week was almost disastrous. What went wrong? What lessons can be learned about how we do business?...

Fevered thinking

Few books in modern times have so divided people as Richard Dawkins? bestseller The God Delusion. But careful reading of the book has identified a disturbing aspect to the biologist?s critique of religion. Here, one of his most trenchant critics deconstructs the attack on religion...

Devout double agent

What makes a man live a life of duplicity and how does he come to terms with the chasm between his publicly professed beliefs and his secret degeneracy? A new film not only explores this conundrum but manages to portray Catholicism, and Opus Dei, in an intelligent manner...

Cur? in the Cabinet

His was a controversial appointment as an adviser to France?s new hardline Minister for Housing and Urban Politics. But, as Salesian priest Fr Jean-Marie Petitclerc tells Alain Woodrow, he is just following in the footsteps of Don Bosco, the founder of his order...

Look beyond the boundaries

In many dioceses the priest-centred model of the parish will soon no longer be an option. Yet there are huge resources to draw on in terms of the commitment and competence of the laity. The Church must learn to incorporate these more effectively into its structure...

On Earth as it is in Heaven

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