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God’s newest house in the Gulf
Abigail Frymann
Thousands were dubbed ‘living stones’ by the Vatican’s head of evangelisation as they celebrated the consecration of the church of Our Lady of the Rosary last week in Qatar, the latest Arabian Muslim state to permit the opening of a dedicated place of Catholic worship
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Church in the World
Anguished’ Pope in Iraq peace plea
Austria
Cardinal decries Christian ‘shame’ over Holocaust | | Bolivia
Police attack hunger strikers in church | Canada
Convert for sakeof planet, Church tells the faithful | | Germany
Zollitsch sees eye to eye with Pope | Poland
Restraint on JPII beatification urged | | Rome
Pilgrims flock to ancient Holy Week liturgies | United States
Fellow bishops support snubbed Robinson | |
Featured Articles
Dialogue at the deepest level
Clifford Longley
A decade on, the objection of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to theologian Jacques Dupuis’ views on religious pluralism still resonates. Here, Clifford Longley introduces a newly released conversation between Fr Dupuis and the Austrian Cardinal Franz König, both now dead, which throws new light on that
watershed moment for the Catholic Church and its relations with other faiths
Figure in shadow
Tina Beattie
Despite its quest for authenticity, the BBC1 drama series The Passion portrays a hollowed-out Jesus, devoid of richness and complexity. Other filmic portrayals of him are less literal but more eloquent of the truth of the gospels
Belief: a reader’s guide
Alban McCoy
Easter is the traditional time for the reception of adults into the Church, but for these new Catholics and others wanting to deepen their faith, where to turn? The Tablet’s religious books editor rummages through his shelves and recommends the best reads
Quiet kind of radical
The Tablet Interview
Elena Curti
With more than 750 years of history under their cinctures, Carmelites can afford to be sanguine over the Church’s current woes. And, as Britain’s new Prior Provincial tells Elena Curti, people are beginning to revisit their charism of silent contemplation
Islams's mixed face values
Lucien Guise
Representations of the Prophet Muhammad are not allowed in Islamic art, while Christian figures, including Jesus and the Holy Family, are more common in works from the Muslim world than many may realise
The Jewish way to listen
Thomas Casey
The revised prayer for the Jews in the Tridentine Rite Good Friday service has raised profound fears of damage to Catholic-Jewish relations. Here a Jesuit professor of philosophy explains how much he has learnt from the Jewish faith
Good news of salvation
Lenten Reflections
Cardinal Basil Hume
Through Christ's Resurrection death has been defeated and a new chapter begins. As the late Cardinal Basil Hume proclaims in this meditation for Easter Day, we all have the task now of proclaiming the Good News
Amid the smell of incense came the purple-hooded Nazarenes
Brian Whelan
Holy Week has for centuries had a special significance in the church calendar in Seville, where early on Good Friday the darkened streets are the stage for solemn processions of penitents Open your eyes
Daniel O’Leary
When we love someone, we draw out the beauty that is within them,
our tenderness persuading their true loveliness to emerge. Similarly at Easter, falsehood melts away and things appear as they really are
Faith and Science
John Cornwell, John Farrell
Creator as calculator - The original Big Bang man
I am still on my feet
Patrick Chivers
The diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease raises fears and questions, but, as one sufferer discovered, it was not what he faced losing that was the greatest shock, it was the realisation of what he had
Descent into chaos
John Reynolds
To be very young, old or sick and poor in Iraq five years on from the invasion is to live in peril. To be any of these and Christian as well is to live on the brink of disaster Nourished by sacrifice
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
At Easter the Church experiences a new birth partly by virtue of those who are received at the Vigil. Sustained by those it welcomes, writes Daniel McCarthy, the whole Church can rejoice Ministry of the senses
Parish Practice
Steven Restori
The arrangement of flowers in a church is a prayer in itself. Great care is required if the decorations are to express the journey from the desert of Lent into the garden of the Ressurection Taboo or not taboo?
The ethical Kitchen
Rose Prince
News from Britain and Ireland Heads accuse Minister of 'betrayal' More home news Book Reviews Gardener with a thirst for beauty
Ratzinger’s Faith: the theology of Pope Benedict XVI
Tracey Rowland
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