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Poverty: the cost to families

Paul Nicolson

Religious leaders, charities and politicians gather in London next week for the tenth National Poverty Hearing. They will learn that many families struggle to survive below the Government?s deprivation thresholds, with consequences for children?s education Free 

Questionnaire
on the Holy Land

The Tablet is launching a major survey asking readers for their views about the search for peace in the Holy Land....
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 From the editor’s desk


Towards a united christendom Free 

Masked by the drama of a controversial and tense papal visit to a leading Muslim nation, an unexpected thaw seems to be taking place in relations between the Roman Catholic ...

Still no home for cathy

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The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

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 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

'The Union is more fragile today than at any time since the Jacobite rebellion in 1745'

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Jonathan TullochJonathan Tulloch

Glimpses of Eden

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 Books and arts

Barometer of political weather Free 
Thatcher and Sons: a revolution in three acts
Simon Jenkins

Britain has a fine tradition of scholarly journalism. In each generation there exists a small proportion of the political commentariat who periodically gather up the treasure buried ...

       
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 ...


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