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Latest issue: 23 May 2008  ‘They hadn’t a crust of bread’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
Church in the WorldUS cardinal aims to silence rebel Australian bishop |
AustraliaTime may be up for ‘chatty’ worship, says archbishop | Brazil‘Anonymous birthing’ could save babies |
CanadaApproval for over-the-counter morning-after pill | EuropeTreanor says the EU is misunderstood |
GermanyChristian-Jewish relations ‘difficult’ | ItalyGenoa mayor questions Pope’s ethics |
United StatesCatholic Obama supporters are put on the defensive |
Powers of persuasionPowers of persuasion
Does 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...
From the side of Christ
Next 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...
When it was forbidden to forbidWhen it was forbidden to forbid
Forty 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...
One bread, one cup, one Church
The 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...
Holy and worthy
On 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...
