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David WilleyNaples’ Cardinal Sepe has clashed with the city’s mayor over the plight of the Roma, whose camps have been torched during a wave of intolerance that crashed over them. As anger erupted against them throughout Italy, the new prime minister announced an immigration crackdown Free
From the editor’s desk
| Integrity and compromise Free Three major events in the past week have offered insights into the family of today and the family of the future. First, there was the wedding of the Queen's grandson, Peter Phillips, and Autumn Kelly, attended by the divorced and remarried parents ... | Bad spending habits die hard |
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Features
 Powers of persuasion Free Nick SpencerDoes the Church have the right to try to influence political processes, such as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill? And if so, how? A new report from a Christian think tank sets out how the Church should engage in modern politics... |  When it was forbidden to forbidAlain WoodrowForty years ago this month the streets of Paris were alive with ersatz student revolution. Then the cry was for freedom from the stultifying boredom and oppression of the bourgeois Establishment. A far cry from today’s students, who when they take to the streets do so in pursuit of jobs... |
From the side of ChristDominic RobinsonNext Friday marks the Feast of the Sacred Heart – the 152nd since Pope Pius IX extended the celebration to the universal Church in 1856. Today the devotion is viewed by many as sentimental or not relevant to contemporary needs. Pope Benedict, and many others, would disagree...
| One bread, one cup, one ChurchDaniel McCarthyThe prayer for the feast of Corpus Christi draws special attention to the fact that sharing in the body and blood of Jesus Christ allows the Church to embrace more closely the gifts of unity and peace which, Daniel McCarthy explains, are received when we receive Communion...
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Holy and worthyMartin JakubasOn the Feast of Corpus Christi, the service of ministers of Communion is renewed and blessed. It is a good time to reflect on the fact that there are no second-class citizens in lay ministry...
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Columnists
 Clifford Longley‘Conscience has been almost completely eclipsed by belief in personal autonomy’  Christopher Howse‘Retired priests and nuns have taken up fencing, and photos of them at it adorned the papers’
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Books and arts
Man is more than his neurology Free
The Kingdom of Infinite Space: a fantastical journey around your head
Raymond Tallis
A large number of popular books have been published recently, more scientistic in spirit than scientific, suggesting that a combination of Darwinian theory and neuroscience is on ... |
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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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