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Latest issue: 4 September 2010

The Pope, the Church and the visit – what Britons really think  Exclusive 

Elena Curti

Pope Benedict XVI is a more familiar face to Britons than the Archbishop of Canterbury, yet beyond the Catholic Church the public seems still to awaken to his state visit. That is just one finding of a poll conducted exclusively for The Tablet with two weeks to go before the Pope arrives Free 

 EDITORIAL

Everything to play for Free 

Attempts to manipulate public opinion to give the Pope a hard time when he visits Britain later t...

 FEATURES

 FIVE MINUTES WITH THE POPE

 COLUMNISTS

Clifford LongleyClifford Longley

‘Tatchell has come in for criticism from his own side for not being extremist enough’

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 TOP STORIES

Church in the World

Danneels urged sex-abuse victim to remain silent Free 

Australia

Translation of Missal to be phased in

Chile

Trapped miners build underground shrine

France

Strains increase over Gypsy-expulsions policy

Germany

Bishops issue new guidelines after scandals

Pakistan

Aid agencies on guard against bias

Rome

Legionaries ‘unreformed’, warns priest

Turkey

Muslim leader backs return of Tarsus church

News from Britain and Ireland

Church’s share of papal trip costs climbs to £10m

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 BOOKS AND ARTS

Brilliance dispelling the dark Free 
Caravaggio: a life sacred and profane
Andrew Graham-Dixon

It is almost impossible to overpraise this book. It is the life of an artist who had always been .....

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 A CONVERT CARDINAL

newman Cardinal Newman – the man and his ideas

John Henry Newman, whom the Pope is to beatify on 19 September, was a complex character. Revered as one of the great Catholic scholars and theologians of all times he caused huge controversy when he left the Anglican Church for Rome and mystery still surrounds his closest friendships.    Read more

 HAVE YOUR SAY

Motes and beams

Pope Benedict has spoken out against clerical sexual abuse of minors in the strongest terms. In June he ended the Year for Priests by blaming “the enemy” for the revelations ...


Building a youth-friendly Church

A recent Tablet article on "Coming-of-age Catholics" cited the April Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report which found that ...


Catholic Church needs a new Martin Luther

The Archbishop of Canterbury need not have apologised when he said in April that the Catholic Church – or at any rate its leadership – had lost its credibility. ...


 LETTERS EXTRA

Newman and Pope Benedict are not kindred spirits
Kevin L. Morris, Cheshire

It is almost miraculous that the Pope, who is leading us back to Tridentine ways, is to beatify Cardinal Newman, the godfather of Vatican II. He – the former CDF boss – ...


Forgotten figure behind Newman’s conversion
Dr Peter Ferrer, Oxon

During the run up to the Beatification of Newman, the name of Ambrose St John has often been heard. However the name of Richard Hurrell Froude is almost entirely ignored: without ...