|
Editorial
Qualities of a Lib Dem Leader Not a scientific question at all  Columns
Tim Hames
?There is an Establishment and it helps to have been to Oxbridge to be part of it?
Mona Siddiqui
?Peace comes about when we make peaceful coexistence our goal?
Ann Wroe
?It looked to me, driving through India, as if the whole country was on the move?
Jonathan Tulloch
Glimpses of Eden
|
|
|
 |
Uncommon overture
John Borelli
When 138 leading Muslim scholars issued a statement last week addressing Christians around the world, responses varied from warm to cautious, while some claimed that ?A Common Word Between Us and You? is a necessary step on the road to world peace. What is clear is that dialogue between the faiths has vital new opportunities for progress
|
Church in the World
Europe dominates list of new cardinals
Austria
Priest at heart of deportation row | | Brazil
Bishops threatened for defending Indians | Czech Republic
?2.1bn church compensation plan | | Ghana
African church leader advocates pastoral approach on condom use | Iraq
Anger at response to kidnapping | | Italy
Search for shared understanding of Pope?s role | Korea, North
Persecuted order could return | | Portugal
F?tima ?miracle? not clear-cut | Rome
Cautious approval from Vatican for Muslim letter | | United States
Clergy back Burke on Giuliani Communion ?ban? | |
Featured Articles
Hard history to face
Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
Sixty-four years after he was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for refusing to bear arms in Hitler?s army, Franz J?gerst?tter, a farmer from Upper Austria, is to be beatified in Linz on Austria?s National Holiday, 26 October. The beatification is a belated recognition of a controversial martyr 
Putting a price on health
Phil McCarthy
Health care has long been a right in Britain, but today it often seems more of a commodity. As the NHS, 60 years old this year, reels from the dirty wards scandal which has left 90 people dead in Kent, what future is there for a service inspired by fairness and driven increasingly by market economics?
A long and winding road
Faith in Action
Terry Philpot
Nick Young left the law for the charity world, at a much reduced salary but on a firm footing that was built on his experiences both as an Anglican and as a Catholic. In the latest in our series, Terry Philpot talked to him about his journey
Cast in stone?
Gerard Mannion
An ambitious new project to convince people around the world of the importance and relevance of natural law has been launched by the Pope, sparking debate about whether morality can change or whether it is immutable
Justice?s young pioneers
Abigail Frymann
Two years ago Make Poverty History hammered home the divisions between the world?s rich and poor. While some may despair, saying the gap is as large as ever, others have harnessed the energy of the campaign, especially in our schools, to help train a new generation of charity activists Heart of a worldwide web
Parish Practice
Bernard Cotter
Traditionally, World Mission Sunday was a day to commemorate those parishioners who travelled to spread the Gospel. Today, we remember all relationships that begin and end in the parish, and in particular how we welcome new immigrants and acknowledge their countries of origin Spit and Polish
The Language Game
John Morrish
News from Britain and Ireland ?Bias? row flares at abortion inquiry More home news Book Reviews Backstage politics of the council
Vatican II: a sociological analysis of religious change
Melissa J. Wilde
Reviewed by David Martin
For the rest of this week's book reviews visit The Tablet Bookshop.
© The Tablet Publishing Company
|
|
