|
Sign up to our Weekly Newsletter.
 |
|
We continue to offer the same free content on the website as before, which is now identified by the red 'free' sign.
The full print edition of The Tablet is now available online in PDF format for print subscribers.
Find out more by clicking on the link above.
Free From the editor’s desk
Features
 Tinker, tailor, soldier, priest Free Jonathan LuxmooreA spate of revelations by priests in Poland, and in other former Communist countries, that they had spied for state secret police forces, has left Catholics divided over the best way to move forward. Should the church authorities further investigate the priests or should the past be left behind?... | Exodus under fire Free Anthony O'MahonyAs Islamist intolerance and conflict increases throughout the Middle East, ancient church communities are fleeing westwards. While the exodus is denuding traditional cradles of Christianity, it is at the same time helping to heal the wounds of antique schisms...
|
What is Hezbollah?Julie FlintFormed during an earlier conflict with Israel 21 years ago, Hezbollah, or the Party of God, now runs a vast social services network for the Shia Muslims of Lebanon and has elected representatives in the Beirut Parliament. So where does it come from and why does it need its own private army?...
| Intimate with a majestic GodIn his analysis of the collect for this Sunday, Daniel McCarthy describes how in the prayer we call on God in intimate terms as our father. In the role of children we ask him to perfect us in the spirit of adoption and to make us worthy of entering into the promised inheritance...
|
Why Br Roger diedBr FrancoisThe violent killing in August 2005 of Br Roger Schutz, founder of the ecumenical religious community of Taiz? in Burgundy, shocked the world. Here, one of his fellow brothers assesses the legacy of a man who had a profound understanding of both good and evil...
|  Being the Good NewsGerald O'CollinsContemporary society often seems to have lost its link with religion. According to speakers at a recent conference in Australia, communicating faith is about embodying the message rather than telling it... |
Paradise beyond a rusty gateCreated by immigrant miners, the now neglected shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes in the Welsh valleys is still a place of spirituality and delight, as Richard Abbott discovers...
| Making marriage work againCharles and Jane PerrymanA new programme for healing relationships in trouble is coming to England from North America...
|
Cardinal Johannes WillebrandsCardinal Edward Idris Cassidy
|
|
|
Columnists
 Tim Hames?Mr Blair speaks in a moral tone that smacks more of Gladstone than Palmerston?  Peter Stanford?A bit more boredom and a little less cosseting might teach children self-reliance?
|
Books and arts
Space for dissent - but at a price Free
Charitable Hatred: tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700
Alexandra Walsham
In the reign of Henry VIII about 50 Protestants, proto-Protestants, Anabaptists and oddities were burned for heresy; two suffered under Edward VI, perhaps 290 under Mary, six under ... |
|
|
|
Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb
According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ... Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti
There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ... The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor
"Whoever comes to me, I shall not turn (him) her away" (John 6:37). Many readers will recognise ...
|
|
|
