Benedict’s Vice-Pope

It was the day after the ‘Regensburg’ speech when Tarcisio Bertone was installed as the Vatican’s Secretary of State, and he hit the ground running. Since then this populist and voluble cardinal – fiercely loyal to his cerebral boss – has remained a controversial figure...

Kenya’s great rift

The Church in Kenya has provided enormous pastoral support during recent post-election violence, but in the moral guidance it has offered the country, it has so far failed to cover itself in glory, as our correspondent reports from Kisumu...

Mini-Poland: a place too like home

Polish Catholics in England and Wales have had their own church structure for 60 years and guard it jealously. Now there are signs that the influx of new migrants may force a change in the relationship between it and the wider Church here...

Still dissenting after all these years

As a monk who, at 90, can claim a reasonable degree of acquaintance with both God and the Church, Sebastian Moore is well placed to question where the latter might be mistaken, in the eyes of the former. He talks to Theo Hobson...

Not Jerusalem. Not Italy. But Cornwall 2008

As a Cornish artist’s modern-dress take on Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is unveiled, the priest-in-charge of the church where it will hang outlines its contemporary message...

The Son revealed

The process begun by the Holy Spirit at the Annunciation culminates in the Baptism of Christ at the end of the Advent-Christmas cycle. Alongside the Son of God, we too are children of the Lord, our adoption expressed in the Eucharist...

Gentle as silence

Quiet times during the Mass can make many people uneasy, but it is essential that we listen to God as well as talking or singing to him. The stillness of meditation allows him to reach us...

When in Rome

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