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Publication of Humanae Vitae 40 years ago was a seismic moment in the history of the Catholic Church. Today most practising Catholics ignore its teaching on birth control and more than half think it should be revised. This is the central finding of a major survey commissioned by The Tablet Free From the editor’s desk
| Birth control and belief Free In his memoir, A Crown of Thorns, Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster called the crisis that overtook global Catholicism in the summer of 1968 "the greatest shock the Church has suffered since the Reformation". He was referring of course ... | Bosnia’s chance for justice |
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Texts in full
Prayer for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral issue text
The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral has written a prayer for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will be used at the cathedral's service of thanksgiving on 5 June. The Archbishops of ... | Beware suspicion, inertia and impatience
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor on the 'enemies of ecumenism'
Two memorable events in my thirty-five years of being a bishop have been the visits of successive Popes here to our country. First of all, Pope John Paul came thirty years ago this ... |
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Features
 Faultlines reopenTheo Hobson and Victoria CombeThis week in Canterbury, what Rowan Williams calls ‘this extraordinary thing’, the Anglican Communion, is dividing inexorably between a broadly (but not entirely) liberal Western section and a conservative section rooted mainly in the developing world... | Plentiful bountyDaniel McCarthyActs of giving define us: God gives us to ourselves in Creation, God gives himself to us in the Incarnation, and we give ourselves to God and our neighbour in the Eucharist. By virtue of these acts we are made holy, writes Daniel McCarthy, and brought to eternal joy...
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Out of the desertEdward KesslerSaudi Arabia took its first steps along the road of interfaith dialogue when King Abdullah opened the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid. His initiative has a major symbolic significance even if some of the key elements for true religious encounter were missing...
| Stretching the sinews of the heartDaniel O’LearySoon the world will be watching the finest athletes competing in Beijing to prove themselves the best in their chosen field. That amazing level of total commitment is necessary, too, on the training ground of the soul...
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 Tablet Special: Humanae Vitae 40 years onDavid Lodge,Sue Gaisford, Jimmy Burns, Catherine Pepinster, Charles Curran, Paulinus Ikechukwu OdozorHow far have we come? - Nothing changed? Everything changed - Matter of conscience - The deafening silence of dissent - Dangers of certitude
Healthy vision for Africa... |  World Youth Day 2008Stephen Crittenden, A day to rejoice - ‘You are the new creation’... |
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Columnists
 Tim Hames‘There seems to be an agreement that the provision of welfare has lost its moorings’ Colenso Lambeth‘The clipboard was probably not part of the Zulu original’
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Books and arts
Flourishing conditions for terror Free
Descent into Chaos: how the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid
The partition of India in 1947 created a Muslim state in awe of its giant, multiconfessional neighbour. Three wars since then, the last resulting in the loss of its eastern wing, ... |
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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 ... Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb
When do the bad actions of a few completely overshadow the good of the past?
This question ...
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