March 2018

Last week we (the Bishops’ Committee for Interreligious Dialogue) organised a colloquium on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.  Levinas was born in Lithuania of a Jewish family and only escaped extermination in Auschwitz because he had become a French citizen. He spent the war in a prisoner of war camp while his family perished in […]

The world continues to be appalled at the atrocities carried out in the name of religion. At present the violence is associated with Islamic extremism though all religions have been involved in war and engaged in violence at some time in their histories as we were recently reminded by Pope Francis.  This timely reminder came