| True Christian dialogue Free In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis recalled the steady, unrelenting approach of God. His approach at first was not wanted. Then Lewis began to read the gospels and attend church services. God was after him, he felt, to acknowledge his ... | Faith and science are allies |
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Features
Dialogue at the deepest level Free Clifford LongleyA 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
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|  Figure in shadow Free Tina BeattieDespite 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... |
 Quiet kind of radicalElena CurtiWith 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
... | Belief: a reader’s guideAlban McCoyEaster 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
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 The Jewish way to listenThomas CaseyThe 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 salvationCardinal Basil HumeThrough 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... |
 Islams's mixed face valuesLucien GuiseRepresentations 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... |  I am still on my feetPatrick ChiversThe 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... |
Open your eyesDaniel O’LearyWhen 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
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| Ministry of the sensesSteven RestoriThe 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...
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Amid the smell of incense came the purple-hooded NazarenesBrian WhelanHoly 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...
| Nourished by sacrificeDaniel McCarthyAt 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...
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Descent into chaosJohn ReynoldsTo 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...
|  Faith and ScienceJohn Cornwell, John FarrellCreator as calculator - The original Big Bang man... |
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Columnists
 Peter Stanford‘I have never seen so much unprompted piano practice as in those TV-less days’  Tim Hames‘The Olympic Games will be a magnet for dissent in various guises’
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Books and arts
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Ratzinger’s Faith: the theology of Pope Benedict XVI
Tracey Rowland
In a previous book, Culture and the Thomist Tradition: after Vatican II, Tracey Rowland, who is professor of political philosophy and continental theology at the John Paul II Institute ... |
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Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb
According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ... Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti
There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ... The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor
"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...
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