That they may be one

The monks at the newly established Holy Cross monastery in County Down aim to break down the barriers between the Catholics and Protestants of Northern Ireland through special retreats of reconciliation...

Hope on the Nile

While famine and war ravage the western Darfur region, in Sudan?s southern provinces the guns are now silent. Change is coming to this part of Africa...

Church?s best-kept secret

John Paul II gave the task of compiling a guide to social doctrine to Cardinal Renato Martino who spoke to Philip Crispin at the launch of the English version...

Basil and the bomb

Though Cardinal Hume was no unilateralist, his support never wavered for Mgr Bruce Kent, the leader of CND, whom he counted a friend to his dying day...

Advance, don?t retreat

The European project is still a valid one despite the referendum setbacks, writes Tony Blair?s former adviser on the EU. Just don?t call the next treaty a constitution...

Penitent?s progress

Medieval pilgrimages were often for the expiation of sins. With its 3,000 wells, Ireland offered many destinations for those who could not travel far...

On foot to Jerusalem

For James Carty, a successful City career beckoned. Instead he has turned his talents, and his feet, to a 3,500-mile pilgrimage from London to the Holy Land...

The miracles man

Patrick Theillier is the doctor charged with investigating cures at Lourdes. But another, profound healing happens in the Pyrenean town, he says...

At a celestial altitude

The Tablet asked a non-believer to try out The Catholic Experience at a friary in Wales and see what he might gain from it...

No need for the Astroturf

One American community discovered how liturgy helps us confront death, rather than mask the grave?s reality...

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