Disproportionately deadly

Friends of Israel should be among the first to put pressure on the country?s Government to reel back its military machine before its excessive response to the kidnapping of its soldiers mutates into a wider regional catastrophe...

Ethics for a troubled world

Catholic moral theologians from 63 countries gathered in Padua, Italy, last week. The first International Crosscultural Conference for Theological Ethicists provided a unique opportunity to share views and experiences, as outlined by two of the organisers...

Back to the ashes of war

After 15 years of rebuilding following the decades of demolition of the Seventies and Eighties, Lebanon had risen up like a Levantine phoenix. Now, as The Tablet?s correspondent in Beirut reports, all that has disappeared in one short week...

Parents? choice: to know or not to know

Two sisters ? both Catholics ? had different views about antenatal tests for disabilities during their pregnancies. One had a succession of tests and discovered that her child would have Down?s syndrome. The other, whose baby is due in October, has rejected the offer of tests. Below Rachel Perry explains why she needed to know and, opposite, Victoria Combe gives her view...

New era, old dilemma

Nuclear deterrence is once more being debated ahead of the decision to renew the Trident weapons system. Here, a former senior British diplomat argues why, despite changed circumstances, the UK should retain its atomic option...

Lesson in partnership

Glasgow schoolchildren are most aware of the sectarian divide when Celtic play Rangers, but a new project that twins Catholic and non-denominational schools shows pupils just how much they have in common...

Caught in their own trap

The arrest of Lord Levy in the ?loans for peerages? inquiry could not have happened without the gradual erosion of habeas corpus. The irony is that it is Labour?s own reforms that caused such an early arrest, and that may yet compromise the Prime Minister...

Gifts of the Lord?s favour

In the collect for the sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time we ask that we, fervent in faith, hope and love, may persevere in obeying God?s commands. Daniel McCarthy examines the nuances of the original Latin and how it is rendered in translation...

Small steps for mankind

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