Maternal life

28/03/2014 | Reform

The feminist Catholic theologian Tina Beattie talks to Stephen Tomkins

Tina Beattie has offended Catholic traditionalists with her defence of women’s ordination. And, in 2012, she was one of 27 Catholics who wrote to The Times arguing that Catholics could … Read More

A good question: Do faith schools
 have a future?

27/03/2014 | Reform

Each month we ask one question and get four answers. This month: Do faith schools have a future?

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This article was published in the April 2014 edition of  Reform.

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Reviews – April 2014

27/03/2014 | Reform

Paying for the sins
 of the fathers

Calvary Directed by John Michael McDonagh Certificate 15, 100 minutes Released on 11 April

Brendan Gleeson’s Father James is a better priest than we are used to seeing on screen. A man of … Read More

Niall Cooper: Hope within the wilderness

27/03/2014 | Reform

Finding hope in today’s bleak climate

We live in bleak times, and are bombarded by bad news. At times, we may feel discouraged, hopeless and impotent in the face of spending cuts and rising prices, whose impacts are bearing increasingly … Read More

Jumble Sales of the apocalypse: Victorian Lent

27/03/2014 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the rigours of Victorian Lent

Mars and Flake, Twix and Galaxy, KitKat, Milky Way and Aero. They are like the seven deadly sins in churches up and down the land each spring. Have you ever thought about … Read More

Ukraine: A country always on the edge

27/03/2014 | Reform

Meic Pearse considers what Ukraine’s past tells us about the present and future

Few countries illustrate better the “clash of civilisations” thesis of the late great Professor Samuel Huntington than does Ukraine. Indeed, its very name means “borderland”. According to … Read More