Renowned Sri Lankan theologian Fr Tissa Balasuriya OMI - one of four theologians silenced by Cardinal Ratzinger - offers the second part in his reply to Benedict's assertion that we are suffering a 'dictatorship of relativism' - by Tissa Balasuriya

The attacks on ordinary Londoners show that the god of the terrorist is unrecognisable to religious people. History is on the side of peace, not violence - Cormac Murphy O'Connor

A butterfly's wings echo through the universe, as do the effects of good and evil. The moral dimensions of chaos theory, after London - by Andrew Thomas Kania

The darkness of winter - or perhaps just getting older - lead us to wonder, "is that it?" On the balancing of the fragile symbols of meaning - Michael B. Kelly