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Decline and fall
William Keegan
The current ‘credit crunch’ may not be the economic disaster of the Great Depression.
But the cover of the global banking system and the reputation of Britain’s ‘prudent’
prime minister and former chancellor have been blown and will be difficult to repair
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Church in the World
Bush breaks with tradition to welcome Pope personally to US
China
Cardinal to abandon pilgrimage | | Germany
Berlin visit to mark fall of the Wall | India
Priests ‘stifle growth of Church’ | | Iraq
Chaldean envoy lashes out at US | Lithuania
State television airs message from the Pope | | Paraguay
Former bishop leads in fight for presidency | United States
New Orleans loses 27 churches | | Zimbabwe
Mediation urged over deadlock | |
Featured Articles
Adding spice to the American mix
George Weigel
Benedict XVI knows that the Church in America faces an entirely different set of challenges from the Church in Europe, and his addresses during his visit will take account of that. Here one of the leading US commentators highlights the key issues 
The state we are in
Signs of the times - 2
Nicholas Boyle
Earlier this year, Pope Benedict spoke of three signs of the times: globalisation, secularism and a search for spirituality outside institutional religion. As he visits the United States and addresses the United Nations, we examine these ‘signs’. Here, the president of Magdalene College, Cambridge, asks how useful the concept of secularism is for understanding the contemporary world
From man’s man to free man
Daniel O’Leary
A visit to a prison revealed the damage that has been done to so many young men, some serving jail sentences, but most imprisoned in other ways. Yet the painful path to true liberation, through death to life, was also pointed out Less protection for the human
Bruce Kent
Amnesty International has veered from its traditional campaigning concern for prisoners of conscience. Its support for abortion in certain circumstances was confirmed at last week’s AGM. Some members have resigned, but others are still working from within to reverse this change of direction 
Love in the time of poverty
Nick Harnan
More used to trying to bring God to people, a missionary on a undercover quest to reconnect with the poorest and most deprived in Britain found instead that, in the grubbiest part of town, God was offered selflessly and unselfconsciously back to him
Benedict’s papacy comes of age
Robert Mickens
Three days after his eighty-first birthday, today marks the end of the third year since the papal election of Benedict XVI. The year was marked by the publication of his encyclical on hope. But his bold liturgical changes have caused the most controversy
A holy transaction
Listen to the Word
Daniel McCarthy
The fact that our gifts are part of an exchange raises the question of what kind of response is required from us to God’s gift of the Word. Daniel McCarthy explains what lies behind the invitation to divine-human commerce At your service
Parish Practice
Paul Hypher
The way that power is exercised in the Church should be neither democratic nor autocratic. The appropriate structure takes account of the fact that
church members are a communion of slaves, a true fellowship
A fair compliment
The language game
John Morrish
News from Britain and Ireland Bishops rally to defence of migrants More home news Book Reviews China’s growing faiths
Religious Experience in Contemporary China
Xinzhong Yao and Paul Badham
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer
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