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Conscience clause amendment to gay marriage bill defeated

Koch: ‘Spiritual roots vital to EU'

French gay marriage fight goes on

MPs welcome IF campaigners

From the editor’s desk

A message from above

Bishops and bulldogs

Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis
Hospitals must ensure the LCP is not misapplied
Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Same-sex marriage bill must not discriminate against the Church
Archbishop Vincent Nichols calls for amendments to the legislation ahead of next week's debate

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

Vatican II ‐ an unprecedented event, a council like no other
Cardinal Godfried Danneels speaks at Southwark Cathedral
Don't let anyone tell you the Council didn't change much
Robert Blair Kaiser gives the 2012 Tablet Lecture

Features

No sign of a rapprochementAlain Woodrow From De Lubac to Lefebvre, France has long been a place of passionate argument about Catholicism and the liturgy. Publication of the Pope?s motu proprio has provoked intense debate and has consequences not only for celebration of the Mass but a wider vision of the Church...	Mugabe throws the first stoneJames Roberts It was the moment that the Zimbabwean president had waited for. Allegations of adultery against Archbishop Pius Ncube have silenced the one man who has consistently criticised Robert Mugabe and kept the attention of the world on his dictatorial excesses...
Ahead of his timeAshley Beck Ninety years ago this August, Benedict XV sent his ?Peace Note? to the warring nations of the First World War. Joseph Ratzinger took the same papal name in acknowledgement of his predecessor?s courage. But in 1917, this prophet was ignored...	We should mind the gapNiall Cooper With Dickensian disparities between rich and poor once again a feature of life in Britain, church-based and other charities will be looking beyond donations to a long-term solution and a new campaign...

Behind the Cold War blusterPhillip Knightley While many were making merry invoking the words of Le Carr? during this month?s diplomatic spat between Britain and Russia, old warriors meeting in Moscow were secretly moving ?deterrence? into the twenty-first century...	In close harmonyAlan McLean If a church is to be a spiritual community, then its members need to learn how to communicate and how to support one another. For one congregation, that meant changing the way funerals are conducted...
Let down ? but for one SamaritanJames Freestone At 2 a.m. on a London street, a mugging leaves the writer not only bruised and battered but disillusioned about human nature. Then came help from an unexpected quarter...	A moment of reconciliationMichael McMahon Mass celebrated for young offenders together with the Pope?s motu proprio reminded a former chairman of the Latin Mass Society of the real meaning of communion...
Tablet Summer Reading We asked our reviewers which books they will be taking on holiday this year - and what they recommend...	Key to the sea and skyGuy Consolmagno