Tony Blair?s majority might have disappeared at the election if Catholic voters had not remained loyal to Labour. The results of a MORI survey for The Tablet reveals the role of religion at the ballot box Free
The latest agreed statement from the Anglican?Roman Catholic International Commission, ?Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ?, is in sharp contrast to the despondency that seems to have overtaken many ecumenical endeavours in recent years. Here is something ...
The triumphal return of Tony Blair to Parliament this week was somewhat diminished both by Labour?s less than overwhelming victory in the general election and by the fact that both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard, have signalled ...
A joint statement by Catholics and Anglican scholars finds a surprising degree of agreement about the role and status of the Virgin Mary. But have they chosen to ignore some thorny issues?...
The Chief Rabbi fears for the secular modern world and its lack of values. But, he tells Catherine Pepinster, there is a route to redemption. It comes in small steps...
Beyond the crowds and kitsch souvenirs, Lourdes is a place where you can hear the voice of God, the same voice that echoes in all the sacred places of this planet...
The new Pope has chosen William Levada as his successor as doctrinal head. This Californian pragmatist is as tough as you would expect a Ratzinger ally to be...
It took Benedict XVI 26 days to announce John Paul II is on the fast track to sainthood. Is such haste seemly? And should a pope canonise his predecessor?...
Tony Burke agreed out of curiosity to take part in the TV series The Monastery. Then, as the last episode reveals, came the moment that changed his life...
?What we seem to be in danger of losing grasp of is the very idea of civility?
Anne Wroe
?By writing biography, we recast in the world the shadow of a living soul?
Books and arts
New light on a forgotten visionaryFree The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1) Ed. Jan Ross There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...
New light on a forgotten visionaryFree The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1) Ed. Jan Ross There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...