Last Updated: 19 May 2013
Latest issue: 18 May 2013
Feel the Spirit
Kristina CooperThe number of Catholics drawn to Charismatic Renewal is being given a huge boost by thousands of migrants. They are now taking their worship into parishes Free
Nichols tells Cameron: gay marriage bill is threat to religious freedom
Cardinal dreams of Christian unity
Koch stresses 'no conversion of Jews'
Rome orders O'Brien out of Scotland
Polish abortion figures shock public
From the editor’s desk
From the court appearances of accused TV stars to historic scandals involving priests, music teachers and care workers, to the killing of young girls, Britain’s news pages, websites and TV bulletins are awash with cases of the sexual abuse ...
Austerity isn’t working
Unemployment in Britain rose by 15,000 in three months to the end of March, equalling 7.8 per cent of the workforce. This is worrying, but it is salutary to compare Britain with Spain, where unemployment has now reached six million or 27 ...
Features
Being Christ’s hands and feetJane LiveseyWhen the Pope spoke to hundreds of leaders of women Religious in Rome last week, his comments that they should be like mothers, and not old maids, created headlines around the world. It was a comment, says one general superior, that needs to be understood through a theological understanding of maternity – and the prism of Latin America...
An easeful death?David Albert JonesAn independent review chaired by Baroness Neuberger is investigating the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway, a set of guidelines for hospital staff setting out end-of-life care. This is an edited version of a submission to the review assessing the pathway according to Catholic ethical principles...
‘Give the poor the oil that anoints them with dignity: a job’Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham SkorkaThe marginalised are close to the new Pope’s heart. In the second of two extracts from a recent English edition of his conversations with his Argentinian rabbi friend, the pair discuss poverty and true charity, disdain philanthropy without love – and talk about a gold Rolex watch...
The appeal of charismatic spirituality is its resonance with a non-Western world view in which people genuinely expect God to be active in their lives in spontaneous and miraculous ways, not just in the orderly ways of liturgy and sacraments, writes Mark Cartledge....
This Sunday is the Church’s celebration of the force pulsing through the Church, through humanity, and through all of Creation. As Karl Rahner said, the theology of the Holy Spirit fails to understand its primal potency...
An elderly friend buttonholed me the other day and suggested I write about the word “turpitude”. The word occurred to her as she was reading Fifty Shades Of Grey....
A survey carried out by one parish priest reveals better-than-expected attitudes to an important sacrament that is sometimes given a bad name...
Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann
Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
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Church in the World
Pope backs European pro-life initiative FreePope Francis this week supported a Europe-wide initiative to place restrictions on abortions and embryo research across the continent while giving the Vatican’s strongest public ...
Books and arts
Bewitched and bamboozled Free
C.S. Lewis: a life
Alister McGrath
Like C.S. Lewis, Alister McGrath is an Ulsterman and an academic who is also a popular apologist for Christianity of a tempered Anglican character and finely muted intelligence ...