10 February 2001
 Catholic universities in the modern worldDouglas LetsonThe latest document on Catholic universities stresses that they must be places of research. This requirement raises crucial questions both for the institutions themselves and for the authorities in charge of them. The implications are examined by the former president of St Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Church in the WorldCarey pleads for rights of Christians in northern Nigeria |
EcuadorMissionaries back protests by Indians | IndiaSchool principal shot |
SwitzerlandReligious leaders face up to globalisation |
Body and soul
The teaching of the Church on sexuality and marriage has been developed by Pope John Paul II in daring ways. Here are better answers than secular culture gives. A departmental head of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, author of many books on the Church in the modern world, expounds the Pope's thought....
New horizons in the Sixth
Sixth-formers are now required to study a wider range of subjects than ever before. Large sixth-form colleges are in a good position to supply the new curriculum, but what about schools? The Tablet's executive editor reports....
Justice in the classroom
The Catholic aid agency Cafod devotes six per cent of its budget to its awareness and education programme in England and Wales. The programme includes education for justice in schools. The Brigidine sister who is schools co-ordinator for Cafod describes this work on the home front which the agency thinks is vital....
An Anglican U-turn
There has been a revolution in Church of England thinking about the role of its schools. The plan now is to expand them and to focus on promoting a Christian ethos in them. The news editor of the The Times Educational Supplement explains why....
France's horrible secret
France is waking up to the conduct of its army in Algeria 50 years ago. In particular, the use and sanctioning of torture have become topics of public debate. Our Paris correspondent reports on the attitudes which have been brought to light....
Mr Bush backs the Gospel on the streets
President Bush is funding the work of faith groups in society (see p.210). But the separation of Church and State is fundamental in the United States: how far will he be able to go? A Jesuit professor in Georgetown University law centre who served in the Congress as a Democrat assesses the prospects for faith-based 'armies of compassion'....
