Care, and a community

The Government this week published proposals for funding care for the growing number of elderly people. But Religious are also having to think imaginatively about how they finance the residential care homes they run once they can no longer go it alone...

The slumbering monster stirs

On Wednesday the state of Israel, created in the wake of the Holocaust, celebrated its 60th birthday. Yet the anti-Semitism that found its most horrific expression in the Nazi death camps, and was supposed to be ended by the terrible lessons they gave us, is stalking Europe once again...

To save lives, save face

Aid agencies and the UN fear that hundreds of thousands of people could have died through the Burmese junta’s stalling of the relief effort following this month’s cyclone. But it is still necessary to humour the leaders if help is to reach the victims...

Spreading the Word

In the last in a series of public lectures at Westminster Cathedral, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, called on believers and non-believers to find a basis for dialogue founded on mutual respect and shared values...

Windows of wonder

Contemplation is not a technique to be mastered but a journey inside ourselves to become one with what already is. When we do this and glimpse what is there, it takes our breath away...

They also serve

As they await the Second Coming, the faithful are, as Luke says, like alert slaves awaiting the master’s return. In the Prayer over the Gifts on Trinity Sunday, they ask God to sanctify their service, as Daniel McCarthy explains...

Out of the great silence

Catholic Deaf Awareness Week, 11-18 May, offers a chance to think about the issues faced by deaf people and to consider more deeply what ‘Catholic’ philosophy means...

Strike a light, comrade

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