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The Muslims’ letter to the Pope is not all it seems

17th October 2007 Piers Paul Read

At first sight the letter from 138 prominent Muslim scholars and imams to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders published last week, ‘A Common Word Between Us and You’,…

The Pope’s anti-liberal revolution

21st March 2007 Piers Paul Read

The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005 caused dismay among liberal Catholics throughout the world. As Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of…

The Pope was not attacking Islam

21st September 2006 Piers Paul Read

When he delivered his lecture on ‘Faith, Reason and the University’ in Regensburg last week, Pope Benedict XVI said some provocative and contentious things. His comment on Islam was only…

Sex and Society: Anyone for chastity?

4th March 2006 Piers Paul Read

Of the precepts that have been abandoned in my lifetime, none has been junked with greater enthusiasm than chastity. Like the statues of Dzerzhinsky, Ceausescu or Saddam Hussein, it had…

Comment on: Sex and Society: Anyone for chastity?

4th March 2006 Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read must be a rare breed indeed. I thought his kind had been killed off. His view on chastity is a breath of fresh air. His bravery to…

The man who should be Pope

5th March 2005 Piers Paul Read

Pope John Paul II’s recovery from his tracheotomy in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome will have delighted his well-wishers, but it may have come as a disappointment to the Pope…

A fiction based on falsehood

18th December 2004 Piers Paul Read

Shortly before the publication of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code in Britain, the publishers, Transworld, kindly sent me an advance copy of the hardback edition. I glanced through it,…

Diary

15th September 2001 Piers Paul Read

A month or so ago, dining in Dijon on the way back to England from our house in France, I had a spirited argument with my 28-year-old daughter about sexual…

A thorn in the side of the Papacy

28th April 2001 Piers Paul Read

The nearest our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has to a guru or spiritual adviser would seem to be the Swiss priest and theologian, Hans K�ng. Last year Mr Blair took…