| Pro-life is not a single issue Free It may not decide who is to become the next President of the United States, but abortion is once again a hot issue as the 2008 election campaign is launched at the conclusion of the two party conventions. As during the campaign between John Kerry and ... | Be bold, not bewildered |
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Features
 Upping the White House anteDavid GibsonJohn McCain has stunned political friends and enemies alike with his choice of running mate – a gun-toting, pro-life mother of five who has been a state governor for less than two years. His hope is that the choice will win the votes of women and right-wing Christians. But it’s a high-risk strategy that could easily backfire... |  By the River Thames we remember SyonAbigail FrymannArchaeologists from London University have just completed the final excavation of one of the most prestigious religious houses of late-medieval England. Over the past five years they have built up a picture of an abbey west of London whose church may have been bigger than that at Westminster... |
 Holy Father visits a difficult daughterAlain WoodrowWhen Pope Benedict travels to Paris and Lourdes next week, there will be much comment on the way his approach contrasts with that of John Paul II. But the immediate priorities of this Pope are slightly different – even if the sceptical attitude of the French remains the same... |  Lost below the radarPaul NicolsonNot one of the measures announced by Gordon Brown this week will help those on benefits, who suffer disproportionately from the rising cost of food, energy and shelter. But then why should the Government worry about those who never turn out for elections?... |
In clouds of gloryDaniel McCarthyBecause the faithful have become partners of Christ, they share in the mystery of the God who enables them to find unity. They do this, Daniel McCarthy explains, through worship that recognises that they can know God only in ways that are mediated through divine majesty...
| Different gifts, same SpiritVincent PurcellThe setting up of parish vocation teams can help implement the declaration by Europe’s bishops that recognised the whole Church as an assembly of those who have been called – lay and ordained, men and women, all are baptised priest, prophet and king...
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘The most effective anti-crime strategy is achieving full employment’  Laurence Freeman‘Liturgical art is ephemeral. Yet its impressions often stay in the soul’
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Books and arts
The case for God made man Free
Was Jesus God?
Richard Swinburne
Some stories are so improbable that it is reasonable to believe them, according to Aristotle in the Rhetoric. "Credo quia absurdum", many Christians might agree, misquoting ... |
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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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