More than mere satchel bearers

Old wounds have been re-opened by the controversial revision of the Latin prayer for the Tridentine Good Friday liturgy. Most hurtful is the patristic view that Jewish holy books were just the carriers of revelation until the election of Gentile scripture...

The job of religions

There is no need for the Archbishop of Canterbury to apologise for his remarks about faith and the state, for, far from cowering at the side of the public square, it is the role of all religions to be a threat to self-serving secularism and the pursuit of pleasure that seems its only value...

Wise and helpful words

To many engaged on the front line of interfaith dialogue, such as the canon of Blackburn Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s views are correct in pointing a way forward. Indeed, he says, we must act now before it is too late...

Still fighting for peace

One of the best-known faces of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Bruce Kent, talks to Elena Curti about the founding of the group 50 years ago, his involvement with the movement, how he had to choose between it and the priesthood, and the current state of the Church...

A cheerful, joyous love

Positive resolutions feature in this meditation for the second Sunday of Lent by the late Cardinal Basil Hume. He looks at the hope that Easter represents, the need to turn to God and resisting what separates us from Him....

Act of mature faith

The prayer over the gifts for the second Sunday in Lent expresses the interplay of celebration and sanctification on our Christian journey, for which trust in God is central. The Eucharist, writes Daniel McCarthy, marks the start and finish of this process of spiritual development...

Too shy about sin

The Sacrament of Reconciliation has slipped out of the lives of many Catholics, who do not seem to feel comfortable talking about deeply personal things in the context of the confessional. But the discovery of our faults can show us how everything can be turned to good...

Honour Bound

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