| Extraordinary and unacceptable Free
Accusations have been made that the United States is using torture against unidentified suspects held as part of its ?war on terrorism?. Either it tortures them itself, perhaps at secret detention centres, or it passes them on ? ?renders? them ... | |
|
Texts in full
Sexual abuse: a multi-faceted response
Cardinal Levada addresses Rome conference
"Toward Healing and Renewal" is the title given to this Symposium for Catholic Bishops and Religious Superiors on the Sexual Abuse of Minors. For leaders in the Church for whom this ... | Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text
The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ... |
|
Features
God?s sceptical storyteller Free Catherine Pepinster Robert Winston, one of Britain?s best-known fertility doctors, has ventured into new territory with his latest television series and book, this time investigating God. He talks to Catherine Pepinster about doubt, certainty and his conflicts with Catholics...
| Divided it stands ? justAlain WoodrowOne hundred years after the formal separation of France?s Church and State, secularisation has come to trouble the government in ways that could not have been foreseen. The Archbishop of Paris describes, opposite, how the notion of la?cit? is holding up today...
|
Windows on to the soul of the ChurchLaura GascoigneThe sumptuous display of sacred silver and stained glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum?s new gallery highlights old questions about the ethics of ecclesiastical display, but in doing so, presents a dazzling history of church decoration in this country...
| When faith and feelings conflictCivil Partnerships ActThe Civil Partnerships Act, coming into effect this week, will give same-sex couples many of the legal rights of married couples. Here, three gay Catholics reflect on what the move means to them, and how they regard the Church?s attitude to homosexuality...
|
Heart of the CouncilGerald O?CollinsOn 8 December 1965 the Second Vatican Council came to a close. Ever since then, it has had a profound influence on many aspects of the Church, its governance, its liturgy and its relationship with the world. But its richest legacy is Christ himself...
| Advent reflectionsGerard W. Hughes SJThe central message from Gerard W. Hughes SJ in the third of our reflections for Advent is about the nature of Christ?s peace and how it differs from how we go about achieving peace in the world today....
|
The lawless skiesSteve CrawshawThis week, Condoleezza Rice has denied that the CIA has been flying terror suspects to places where torture takes place. But kidnap is nothing new to that organisation...
| Long live the differenceSheila KeefeNew ways of helping parishes become more welcoming towards families with disabled children are long overdue...
|
Just browsingLavinia Byrne
|
|
Columnists
Clifford Longley ?Justice is about debts that must be paid, not voluntary donations? Laurence Freeman ?It is the powerlessness from which the Dalai Lama speaks that is his authority?
|
Books and arts
Modern voice of Victorian doubt Free
Arthur Hugh Clough: a poet’s life
Anthony Kenny
It sometimes seems as though there could be no more honourable distinction for a nineteenth-century Englishman than to have attracted the sneers of Lytton Strachey in Eminent ... |
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
