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Walter KasperFor 40 years, the Catholic Church has engaged in dialogue with the Lutheran, Reformed and Methodist Churches. Here, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity reflects on that dialogue and warns against dismay about ecumenism’s future Free
From the editor’s desk
| Anglicanism's toppling triangle Free Collisions between immovable objects and unstoppable forces are never pretty, as the Church of England seems anxious to demonstrate. Its General Synod heard a desperate plea this week from Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to pull back ... | Way back for the bankers |
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Features
 Ireland’s nettles that need to be graspedGerry O’Hanlon Next week, Ireland’s bishops meet Pope Benedict in Rome to discuss reforms in response to the Murphy report that found widespread failings in the Church’s handling of cases of clerical abuse in Dublin Diocese. Here, the former Provincial of the Jesuits in Ireland sets out the changes he believes are needed to restore confidence in the Catholic Church... | Uncomfortable truthsConor GeartyLast week, the Pope urged the bishops of England and Wales to defend church teaching in an often hostile legislative environment. Here, a leading human-rights lawyer suggests that while Benedict XVI calls for dialogue, that conversation is made problematic by his very concept of dialogue
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Preparing for the bestKeith ChappellMost St Valentine’s Day cards will express declarations of lifelong devotion and eternal love. But the reality of romance involves the pain of separation as well as joy of a marriage commitment. The Church can play a vital part in helping couples understand what that commitment involves...
|  Living apart togetherVictoria CombeHints that the Anglican Communion could split over the issue of homosexuality and women bishops were given by the Archbishop of Canterbury this week. With divisions as sharp as ever, can the factions remain in the same Church?... |
 The failure of warPat Gaffney and Chris ColeLast week’s Green Paper on defence was the start of a debate on the future of Britain’s military strength. Here, the case is presented for a very different vision – for spending on human security rather than military security
... | Robed with new dignityDaniel McCarthyBy our cooperation with the gifts of God, and so living with an upright and genuine heart, we become people in whom the Lord lives, writes Daniel McCarthy. We learn that by giving of ourselves, we are cleansed and renewed...
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Columnists
Catherine Pepinster‘Forget race, gender or orientation – it’s where you live that really marks out your future’  Nicholas Pyke‘The mentality of teaching to the test is now entering the nursery’
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Books and arts
The spleen and the splendour Free
Ruskin on Venice ‘The Paradise of Cities’
Robert Hewison
John Ruskin travelled to Venice in many different guises: as a love-sick 22-year-old; as a brilliant young writer searching for a vocation; and (in later life, while teetering on ... |
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Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti
The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ... 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 ...
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