Clarion call on condoms

Comments by one of the Church?s most influential cardinals coupled with news of a Pontifical Council for Health Care report have fuelled speculation that the Vatican may be changing its view on the use of condoms in the fight against Aids...

The boys from Brazil

One East London parish has more than quadrupled its congregation since it started offering Masses in Portuguese. For the migrants in the congregation, it offers social as well as spiritual and pastoral support...

True test of kingship

One African monarch has more reason than most to welcome a possible shift in the Vatican?s position on condoms. Isabel de Bertodano meets King Litsie III of Lesotho, who has taken unusual steps to help alleviate his country?s Aids crisis...

’Aboud – a paradise defiled

As a village in the Holy Land it had everything – water, pastures, olive groves and good Christian-Muslim relations. Then came the “Israeli Segregation Wall Plan”...

An equal music

A career as an internationally renowned pianist has helped one gay man ameliorate the ?terrible light? of the Church?s teaching on homosexuality ? teaching that must change with changing times...

Home, not so sweet home

When the Church of England’s commissioners forced through the sale of part of the historic Octavia Hill social housing estates, they said tenants would be protected. Now the new private owners plan to sell the properties on the open market...

Catholicism’s indelible mark on the page

With the recent deaths of John McGahern and Muriel Spark, does fiction inspired or underpinned by the Catholic faith have a future? Leafing through the pages, from novels to plays, it looks like it’s still very much alive...

With joy and expectation

The Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter welcomes the renewal of spirit and looks forward to our resurrection. Daniel McCarthy explores its message...

Pacing the apostolic path

Confirmation should not be a last gasp of faith but part of the ongoing journey of formation...

To innovate is not to reform

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