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Thomas LinesRice is the most vital of basic foods, feeding nearly half the human population, so a recent surge in prices has provoked riots in some countries in Africa and Asia. It is part of an unprecedented global food crisis that, unless it is solved, threatens the lives of the poorest people in the world Free
From the editor’s desk
| A question of BBC trust Free Trust cannot be taken for granted just because it is on the letterhead. The BBC Trust's handling of a complaint against the "Panorama" television programme "Sex Crimes and the Vatican", transmitted in 2006, will dismay those ... | Life without mugabe |
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Features
 For whose benefit? Free Isabel de BertodanoIndependent Catholic education is coming under intense scrutiny, writes Isabel de Bertodano, as private schools are forced to justify their charitable status... |  The capacity to transformHugh NelsonNews reports of the tragic deaths of severely disabled James Hughes and his mother, Heather Wardle, have highlighted the pressures faced by the carers of those whom society chooses to exclude. What is less well known is that people with profound learning disabilities have much to teach those in the wider world... |
 Clock ticks on time-warp islandJimmy BurnsAccording to Cardinal Jaime Ortega, a period of reflection and debate has begun in Cuba about life there. As our man in Havana recalls in this diary, it is clear that the state-controlled economy has failed its people. Yet there are plenty of lessons for the US and Europe about social cohesion... |  Chimes of freedomTimothy LavinThe row over Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright has thrown the spotlight on America’s black Churches. While they share a brand of liberation theology, they are also distinctly different... |
The greatest giftDaniel McCarthyOur offering sacrifice at Mass and in the liturgy of our daily lives joins us to the self-offering of Christ and becomes the means by which we rise together to divine matters, as Daniel McCarthy explains...
| A connection restoredDavid WellsParents whose relationship with the Church is erratic or complicated present a special challenge for priests and catechists, but welcoming them offers real rewards for all...
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 Tablet Education - School, Colleges and UniversitiesSchools at the sharp end - Every picture tells a story - Going on vocation - Theology's third way... |
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘The odds are, but only just, that Mrs Clinton will indeed prevail in Indiana’  Peter Stanford‘Children don’t need to hear that Mark Speight has excluded himself from heaven’
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Books and arts
Flawed analysis of the Jesus of History Free
How Jesus Became Christian: the early Christians and the transformation of a Jewish teacher into the Son of God
Barrie Wilson
In re-examining the birth of Christianity, this book purports to be "based on real historical evidence" and to show "how the early Christians hijacked a Jewish Jesus" ... |
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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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