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Robert EllsbergThe diaries of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, are published this month. Here her publisher and editor recalls her life, with its mix of traditional piety and radical politics. Day, now on the path to sainthood, has already made a significant mark on the Church Free
From the editor’s desk
| Science must inform doctrine Free The Catholic Church's opposition to research on human embryos presented Gordon Brown with the threat of resignation by three Catholic Cabinet ministers, who opposed key clauses of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill now before Parliament. ... | China's dark corners |
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Features
 Slipping on the slope of progress Free Mary SellerLegislators are trying to keep up with scientists who have found a way to make animal-human hybrid embryos for use in medical research. But is such use of animal and human material ethical? Here a leading geneticist and priest explains why she thinks scientists should indeed play God... | Wedding bells no longer chimeYvonne RobertsWith marriage rates dropping to their lowest levels since records began, the common experience of a vowed, committed relationship is fading, and marriage has become increasingly the preserve of the rich. Neither politicians nor churchmen have succeeded in ‘selling’ it to the younger generations...
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Not pity – equalityNick O'BrienThe way we treat people with disabilities has changed profoundly, with an emphasis on justice and rights rather than sympathy and charity. It owes much to the veterans of the Vietnam War, says a specialist in disability law, but also to the Church’s ideas about love, based on the Holy Trinity...
| Coca nationHugh O'ShaughnessyIn two years President Evo Morales has made his mark on Bolivia, bolstering the lot of the indigenous people. But he has not always found favour with wealthy Bolivians, the Americans or the Church. And at the heart of many disputes lies an ancient bush...
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 God’s plan for the JewsEugene J. FisherLast week in The Tablet, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn OP wrote of ‘The Jewish way of salvation’, and the distinct way in which Christians should proclaim their faith to Jews. Now a leading authority on interfaith dialogue responds... | Four kinds of joyDaniel McCarthyInward joy cannot always be contained, but demands to be shown and expressed. The prayer for the third Sunday of Easter, Daniel McCarthy explains, evokes the Christian destiny, the nuptial joy of the lamb and the Church...
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Water for ‘new plants’James LeachmanAll sacraments derive their primary meaning from baptism, long associated with Easter. Eastertide also serves as a time for strengthening the faith and fellowship of the whole parish...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘Britain has a major role in all the arenas that must be mobilised once Mugabe is gone’  Nicholas Pyke‘It is normal for hundreds of teenaged boys to arm themselves at the start of every day’
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Books and arts
In search of that extra oomph Free
Nothing to be Frightened of
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes thinks of death at least once a day. To some of his friends this seems morbidly frequent; to others, more haunted by death, he seems only mildly afflicted ... |
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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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