In All Things

Just as Dr Rowan Williams heads off for some well-earned rest after saving the nbsp Anglican Communion nbsp letters have come to light which chart his changing position on the gay question more than 20 years ago An evangelical Christian in Wales with whom he corresponded on the issue of homosexual

Nobel Prize in Literature historian dissident exile critic nbsp ndash no words can capture the immensity of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Two remembrances stand out His 1978 lecture at Harvard University and his short story entitled Matryona rsquo s House Here are excerpts from both Harvard

I haven rsquo t read the novels of E M Forster Like many people I suspect I saw the films but skipped the books Still I was taken in by Zadie Smith rsquo s review of ldquo The BBC Talks of E M Forster 1929-1960 rdquo in the New York Review of Books Forster like T S Eliot was the ho

The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the Vatican-approved new translation of the Mass after years of research debate and controversy nbsp The new translation now available on their website means that both priests and parishioners will soon find that the most familiar part of Ca

Largely triggered by the benign influence on me of Mary Evelyn Tucker the co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a 2003 conference for my book Globalization and Catholic Social Thought I have tried for the last five years to stay abreast of the literature on global warming and oth

Here s an unusually perceptive article on the fifth anniversary of Cardinal Sean O Malley s installation as archbishop of Boston something that I would consider in the wake of Cardinal Law s departure an almost impossible job nbsp Michael Paulson at the Boston Globe does nbsp his usual

A new ad by Sen John McCain has caused controversy because of its use of religious imagery The ad features images of Obama and Charlton Heston playing Moses Flashing across the screen pictures of Obama rsquo s rapturous greeting in Berlin alternate with the phrase ldquo The One rdquo The ad i

The Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s press people will be smiling this morning lsquo How Williams kept his flock together rsquo is the Guardian rsquo s headline lsquo Way ahead found in Church gay row rsquo is the BBC rsquo s while the London Times rsquo s nbsp runs lsquo Bishops back Arch

My parish priest ndash who is not a Jesuit by the way — this morning preached on St Ignatius of Loyola rsquo s remarkable insight into the way the movements of the spirit nbsp produce feelings that are a sure guide to where God is calling people Consolation ndash the movement of God rsquo s S

As a former press secretary in the Catholic Church it was a source of constant amazement to me how the media loved any story that involved monks and modernity ndash while being entirely uninterested in a carefully-crafted intervention in the public square by a cardinal The sort of story that is