Why the Pope is offering this now

Catholic understanding of ecclesi­al communion does in the eighth chapter of the Vatican Council’s Con­stitution on the Church say some­thing that is...

Paul Vallely:A great servant, but a poor master

It is a tempting phrase, “the arrogance of science”, but it is not science that is the problem, so much as certain scientists.

Giles Fraser: Onward faithful eco-warriors

It is now just a few weeks before the fateful UN climate-change sum­mit in Copenhagen.

Simon Parke: Glory and bonfires

ONLY a hermit in the deserts of Middle Egypt will have failed to notice Nick Griffin’s recent appear­ance on Question Time

The long life of an unconfessed lie

IT IS interesting how long a lie hangs around.

Gangmasters need tighter controls

When 23 Chinese cockle-pickers were drowned in Morecambe Bay in February 2004

Leader: At one with the glorious dead

THE TENDENCY of festivals and liturgical seasons to creep forward in the calendar has been observed before.

100 years ago: Divorce for the poor?

IN OUR leading columns we have remarked on the embarrassment which the Archbishop of York might be expected to feel on finding himself in such a galley...

A way to end cynicism and boost democracy

‘Continued mistrust is futile, and will deliver us the politicians we deserve’



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