Dialogue at the deepest level

A decade on, the objection of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to theologian Jacques Dupuis’ views on religious pluralism still resonates. Here, Clifford Longley introduces a newly released conversation between Fr Dupuis and the Austrian Cardinal Franz König, both now dead, which throws new light on that watershed moment for the Catholic Church and its relations with other faiths ...

Figure in shadow

Despite its quest for authenticity, the BBC1 drama series The Passion portrays a hollowed-out Jesus, devoid of richness and complexity. Other filmic portrayals of him are less literal but more eloquent of the truth of the gospels...

Belief: a reader’s guide

Easter is the traditional time for the reception of adults into the Church, but for these new Catholics and others wanting to deepen their faith, where to turn? The Tablet’s religious books editor rummages through his shelves and recommends the best reads ...

Quiet kind of radical

With more than 750 years of history under their cinctures, Carmelites can afford to be sanguine over the Church’s current woes. And, as Britain’s new Prior Provincial tells Elena Curti, people are beginning to revisit their charism of silent contemplation ...

Islams's mixed face values

Representations of the Prophet Muhammad are not allowed in Islamic art, while Christian figures, including Jesus and the Holy Family, are more common in works from the Muslim world than many may realise...

The Jewish way to listen

The revised prayer for the Jews in the Tridentine Rite Good Friday service has raised profound fears of damage to Catholic-Jewish relations. Here a Jesuit professor of philosophy explains how much he has learnt from the Jewish faith ...

Good news of salvation

Through Christ's Resurrection death has been defeated and a new chapter begins. As the late Cardinal Basil Hume proclaims in this meditation for Easter Day, we all have the task now of proclaiming the Good News...

Amid the smell of incense came the purple-hooded Nazarenes

Holy Week has for centuries had a special significance in the church calendar in Seville, where early on Good Friday the darkened streets are the stage for solemn processions of penitents...

Open your eyes

When we love someone, we draw out the beauty that is within them, our tenderness persuading their true loveliness to emerge. Similarly at Easter, falsehood melts away and things appear as they really are ...

Faith and Science

Creator as calculator - The original Big Bang man...

I am still on my feet

The diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease raises fears and questions, but, as one sufferer discovered, it was not what he faced losing that was the greatest shock, it was the realisation of what he had...

Descent into chaos

To be very young, old or sick and poor in Iraq five years on from the invasion is to live in peril. To be any of these and Christian as well is to live on the brink of disaster...

Nourished by sacrifice

At Easter the Church experiences a new birth partly by virtue of those who are received at the Vigil. Sustained by those it welcomes, writes Daniel McCarthy, the whole Church can rejoice...

Ministry of the senses

The arrangement of flowers in a church is a prayer in itself. Great care is required if the decorations are to express the journey from the desert of Lent into the garden of the Ressurection...

Taboo or not taboo?

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