Publications like The Tablet sometimes face a dilemma between loyalty to the Church and the pursuit of veracity. Braving such tensions requires courage and wisdom Inter mirifica, the Decree on the Means of Social Communication (“Among the Wonderful”), one of the first documents issued by the Second Vatican Council, reminded us that the future of humanity is daily becoming more and more reliant on and shaped by the media. And so is the future of Christianity. But when the awesome, life-altering power of communications in the contemporary world is combined with original sin – humanity’s ingrained tilt towards greed and fear – the truth is often the first victim. The household of the faith is not exempt, as the depressing history of recent years testifies. Sinc