Since its first edition featuring a letter from Daniel O’Connell and the relocation of its office to Dublin for five years, The Tablet has had strong links with Ireland. On Sunday, at a Mass to celebrate this journal’s 175th anniversary, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin spoke of the importance of communication, discernment and dialogue in the Church. This is an edited version of his homily The history of salvation is a history of the communication of God with man. In being created in the image and likeness of God we are enabled to embrace divine revelation and to enter into loving dialogue with Him. The communication between God and humanity reached its perfection in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.Communication therefore belongs to the very essence of the Church. Christians are