What happened to limbo?

Richard Umbers | 12 May 2007 | comment 9

Newspapers have been full of news about the abolition of limbo. How much of this is true? 

Canadian philosopher strikes paydirt

Michael McGann | 02 May 2007 | comment 7

Today one of Canada's leading public intellectuals will be awarded the world's biggest prize for his work in bridging the gap between faith and reason.

Saintly scientists: Hate the disease, love the diseased

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 April 2007 | comment 11

The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.

Saintly scientists: ‘Love always wins’

Monica Rafie | 26 April 2007 | comment 5

It is a fitting motto for a heart surgeon who could also one day be declared a saint.

Africa’s competitive fasting

Martyn Drakard | 05 April 2007

Inter-religious rivalry need not be violent, at least in Senegal.

Christian ideas gone mad

Philip Trower | 19 March 2007 | comment 2

It's time to take a closer look at the Enlightenment values which underpin much of modern thinking, says a British journalist in this interview.

A titanic myth about the foundation of Christianity?

Vicente Poveda | 01 March 2007 | comment 1

The director of the biggest-grossing film in history claims that the tomb of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalen has been discovered.

Lost in translation

Carolyn Moynihan | 17 November 2006

Can a new version of the Bible be 'more just' in its language than Jesus himself?

Conversing with Islam

Martyn Drakard | 20 October 2006

There are potholes of misunderstanding on both sides of the road to dialogue with Muslims, as this conversation with a Kenyan student makes clear.

Seen one, seen ‘em all

Mark Shea | 26 September 2006

Yesterday's moral equivalency meant that West was just as bad as Communism. Today's is that both Christianity and Islam are the creeds of violent wackos.

Islam’s eclipse of reason

Robert R. Reilly | 23 September 2006

Islam has had its prophets of reason, but they were suppressed during the Dark Ages

A jihad on secularism

Michael Cook | 22 September 2006

Benedict has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Enlightenment Project, but its crew was asleep.

FOCUS ON VALUES AFTER 9/11
The Pope tackles modernity

Hartwig Bouillon | 15 September 2006

Benedict XVI has used a trip to his homeland to make an acute diagnosis of contemporary thought.

FOCUS ON DEVELOPING WORLD CHRISTIANITY
Winds of change come from the south

Michael Cook | 18 August 2006

Christianity is thriving amongst the burgeoning populations of Africa and Latin America. Will it become the Big Idea of the 21st century?

FOCUS ON DEVELOPING WORLD CHRISTIANITY
Latin rapture

Pedro Dutour | 17 August 2006

A simple message, zealous followers and the weakness of mainstream churches have made Pentecostals the fastest-growing religious group in Latin America.

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