The problem with Pakistan

The world is faced with nuclear dangers on a worrying scale, but while the Western focus is on Iran, a greater threat is growing daily in a country seen as a bastion against terrorism...

Can Aquinas help cool the planet?

Thomist virtues such as temperance, frugality, abstinence and compassion could be important weapons in the Church’s arsenal to fight global warming, according to one speaker at a major conference in Oxford on the ethics of climate change last week...

Finding the right key

The Vatican has given its blessing to the makers of a DVD that shows John Paul II at prayer, greeting crowds and singing. Now even the distinctly un-Catholic composer who wrote the score has fallen under the late Pope’s spell...

A new song in the Valleys

For many years nationalist politics did not sit easily with Welsh Catholicism. But since the setting up of the Assembly and the influx of Catholic immigrants, common interests are becoming increasingly obvious, and new identities are being forged...

Faith in the future

The ideals of ‘empowering people’ and ‘lay leadership’ can mean little as long as parishes are wholly priest-centred. But necessity will bring change and transform the local church...

Too much enthusiasm

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