| Brown’s biggest gamble Free What had seemed like a mere crisis in the banking system turned this week into something close to a calamity. The emergency rescue plan announced by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling would have been close to unimaginable a matter of weeks ago ... | A tragedy for children |
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Features
In harmony with heaven Free James MacMillanScotland’s leading composer expresses his Catholic faith through music, suggesting the medium remains the most numinous of the arts. It is not only a means of connecting with the sacred, but also shows how to be human in a dehumanised world...
|  Held to accountElena CurtiSome of the best brains in business, academia and charities are involved in a group based in the United States whose mission is to make the Church more effective by applying up-to-date standards of business management. And in the current chilly economic climate, such a mission is more vital than ever... |
 Price of making moneyPeter NgIn the face of the current global economic crisis, many people are questioning the way business is conducted and its pressures. A leading global financier has found meditative prayer offers a practical way through the stresses and strains of modern corporate capitalism... | When it can be right to do wrongConor GeartyElected governments regard protesters engaged in direct action as a distraction from proper democratic debate; others see them as heroes or martyrs. It is the view the public takes of the morality of the protest that determines the difference, and the public is often very wise...
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Gary’s story: from violence to becoming as vulnerable as GodMichael SavageIn the stressful space that is modern Britain, more than 250,000 people are admitted into psychiatric hospitals each year. Marking this week’s World Mental Health Day, a chaplain to a secure unit explains how developing a spiritual life can aid a patient’s recovery...
| Facts at your fingertipsAlan WhelanParish life can offer an astonishing range of activities, programmes, groups and events, and often what is needed is simply for parishioners to know about them so that they can get involved. A comprehensive, well-presented parish directory could be the key...
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Prayers that rise like smokeDaniel McCarthyAs the root meaning of the noun ‘faithful’ is ‘trust’, the faithful are those who put their trust in the Lord, which they express by the offering the Eucharist. Daniel McCarthy examines this Sunday’s Prayer Over the Gifts, which takes that as its theme...
|  Of rice and yenKevin RaffertyJapan’s new Prime Minister is a Catholic, which is just one of the factors that contribute to his colourful image. But the big question is whether Taro Aso will get to grips with his country’s serious economic woes... |
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Columnists
 Richard Rodriguez‘It is now left to Main Street to rescue the wealth of lower Manhattan’  Christopher Howse‘Religion, like the arts, counts as an item of light relief in times like these when banks burst’
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Books and arts
Continent on the way to recovery Free
Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles
Richard Dowden
ALMOST four decades ago, a young Briton arrived in Uganda to teach in a village school and was instantly captivated by the landscape and, above all, the people who greeted him ... |
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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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