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Latest issue: 26 July 2008
Last updated: 20 June 2013

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Sex and the modern Catholic

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

From creation to 're-creation'
The Holy See's pavilion at Venice Biennale
Local authorities 'wary of faith groups but rely on their services'
Report by MPs finds low level of religious literacy among councils
Middle classes dominant in top Catholic schools
The Sutton Trust
Ronald Knox, theologian, author, Bible translator
Colloquium at Heythrop College celebrated life of prominent convert

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

 Columnists

Tim HamesTim Hames

‘There seems to be an agreement that the provision of welfare has lost its moorings’

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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, ...

       


Churches under-valued or over-estimating themselves?
Francis Davis, guest contributor

It is not long now until the Local Government Association annual conference. This premier ...

Hume knew Alan Hopes would one day be bishop
Fr Mark Woodruff, guest contributor

When 12 Anglican priests in 1995 reached the end of nearly two years of transition and preparation ...

Anglican patrimony is becoming a reality
James Roberts

As a convert from Anglicanism I have been curious since Benedict XVI paved the way for the ...


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