30 March 2002
 The challenge of heavenDominic Milroy'Today you will be with me in paradise', Jesus said to be one of the thieves crucified alongside him. How is that promise to be understood today, considering the harm done by perversions of it and questions put by the advnces of reason and science in the modern age? A monk of Ampleforth sets out to purify our ideas of heaven. Church in the WorldVatican defends itself on clerical abuse as Pope attacks ?sins? |
AfricaIslamic law declared unconstitutional | AmericasVenezuelans unite to defend cathedral |
AsiaPope hopes for unity in Korea | EuropeWomen?s ?ordination? to go ahead |
RomeFrail Pope misses Palm Sunday Mass |
The purge of Boston
As American Catholics progress through Lent, they have been shaken to the roots by revelations about clerical sexual abuse. A priest looks at how they have reacted. James Keenan is Professor of Moral Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology....
The violent prayer of Gethsemane
The first three articles of this edition of The Tablet form, as it were, a triptych featuring the great events of the Easter story. This opening reflection by the papal preacher focuses on the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus sweats blood as he prays. It was one of four meditations delivered by the Capuchin priest before John Paul II and his household this Lent. It is translated here from the Italian....
The agony and the ecstasy
Practising in a choir due to sing Bach?s St John Passion in a concert, Ann Wroe found herself disconcerted. How to come to terms with the contradictory emotions of happiness and sorrow, suffering and triumph, which the music expresses? In this article she resolves the paradox embedded in the very name, ?Good? Friday....
I?m with Archbishop Conti
The endorsement of the European Union by Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow came in for a critical assessment last week from the Scottish barrister Aidan O?Neill. This week the European Commissioner for External Relations replies....
