Out of the desert

Saudi Arabia took its first steps along the road of interfaith dialogue when King Abdullah opened the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid. His initiative has a major symbolic significance even if some of the key elements for true religious encounter were missing...

Faultlines reopen

This week in Canterbury, what Rowan Williams calls ‘this extraordinary thing’, the Anglican Communion, is dividing inexorably between a broadly (but not entirely) liberal Western section and a conservative section rooted mainly in the developing world...

World Youth Day 2008

A day to rejoice - ‘You are the new creation’...

Stretching the sinews of the heart

Soon the world will be watching the finest athletes competing in Beijing to prove themselves the best in their chosen field. That amazing level of total commitment is necessary, too, on the training ground of the soul...

Plentiful bounty

Acts of giving define us: God gives us to ourselves in Creation, God gives himself to us in the Incarnation, and we give ourselves to God and our neighbour in the Eucharist. By virtue of these acts we are made holy, writes Daniel McCarthy, and brought to eternal joy...

Tablet Special: Humanae Vitae 40 years on

How far have we come? - Nothing changed? Everything changed - Matter of conscience - The deafening silence of dissent - Dangers of certitude Healthy vision for Africa...

Mass and the neutrino

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