Mission possible

It may be beset with tribal conflict, corrupt politicians, and disease-fuelled poverty, but the religious zeal of Africa has much to offer Europe in revitalising the Church, as Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson told James Roberts...

A grain of wheat

Jesus reminded us that a seed that falls into the earth and dies bears much fruit. This parable is particularly poignant when applied to those who have fallen in war. Here, a relative of a soldier who was killed in Belgium in 1918 reflects on the unexpectedly positive reverberations of the death of his uncle...

Where the buck stops

Sir Ian Blair may be technically safe in his job as head of London?s Metropolitan Police Service, but his position is becoming shaky as public confidence in him and the force he leads ebbs away in the continuing wake of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes...

Money matters

It might be hard for the rich to get to heaven, but that doesn?t mean business is a bad thing. Yet it is so denigrated in British culture that schools almost ignore it. That leaves two flawed television programmes to educate young people about wealth making...

Priest for the whole world

A century ago on Wednesday, one of the modern age?s most influential Jesuits was born in Bilbao. After witnessing the horrors of Hiroshima, Pedro Arrupe headed the Society of Jesus, urging members to remember that the struggle for faith is also the struggle for justice...

In the light of the past

On Remembrance Sunday those who have died are made present. It is as though, in this most Catholic of national rituals, ?a further shore is reachable from here?...

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