26 April 2002
 Le Pen finds the French Achilles heelAlain WoodrowFrance is reeling from the first-round triumph of the National Front in presidential elections. How could a neo-fascist demagogue oust the Prime Minister, the champion of the Left? Our Paris correspondent makes his way through the debris. Church in the WorldCardinals debate ?zero tolerance? of clerical sex abuse |
EuropeMartini praises reaction to plane crash | RomeGeorge Pell to head translation group |
The world did move
That a religious revolution occurred in England in the sixteenth century there can be no doubt, argues the Regius Professor of Modern History Emeritus in the University of Cambridge. We are all post-revisionists now. But what exactly that revolution consisted of remains a matter for discussion....
Feast of fear in Netanya
The worst atrocity of all the suicide bombings of the Palestinian uprising was committed on 27 March against Israelis celebrating the Passover in the town of Netanya. This diary shows how it felt to a Jewish visitor from England....
Albert Einstein?s prophecy
A nuclear bomb can be carried into a city in a suitcase, warns a Jesuit priest based in Tokyo. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Albert Einstein was right to call for a ?new type of thinking?, and the religions of the world must be leaders in the solution....
