Pastor to the dispossessed

The Roma are Europe?s largest ethnic minority, and probably its most alienated. A Jesuit priest who has chosen to live among them finds little solidarity shown towards these outcasts of the Continent...

Hearts of darkness

Conrad Black?s indictment on fraud charges in the United States last week threw the spotlight on the role of the press lord, a role likened by Stanley Baldwin to that of the harlot wielding power without responsibility. But what about the people who take their shillings?...

The paradox of power

While many see the United States as avowedly secular in its founding principles, a deeply religious perspective can be discerned that throws new light on today?s intense global anti-Americanism...

Scar on the Spanish psyche

The thirtieth anniversary of the death of the Fascist dictator Francisco Franco sees Spaniards deep in a divisive political debate once more...

Minister of sound

Anyone whose church swings to contemporary liturgical sounds will know the award-winning music of Marty Haugen, but few this side of the Atlantic know the man. Ellen Teague went to meet him at one of the workshops he is holding this month in Britain...

Power of the Word

Forty years have passed since Dei Verbum, Vatican II?s decree on revelation. Now, the bishops of England, Wales and Scotland have published The Gift of Scripture, which combines traditional interpretation and modern scholarship of the Bible today...

Prepare the way

The ?travelling crib? of Advent shows how we need to encounter Christ wherever we are and whoever we are with...

Homosexuality and the priesthood

The Church's document on gay men and the priesthood is due to be published by the Congregation for Catholic Education next week. The following is a translation of the original Latin text which was handed to The Tablet earlier this week...