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Catholics secured Blair?s third term

Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore

Tony Blair?s majority might have disappeared at the election if Catholic voters had not remained loyal to Labour. The results of a MORI survey for The Tablet reveals the role of religion at the ballot box Free 

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A lucid and valuable achievement Free 

The latest agreed statement from the Anglican?Roman Catholic International Commission, ?Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ?, is in sharp contrast to the despondency that seems to have overtaken many ecumenical endeavours in recent years. Here is something ...

Labour, too, must earn our respect Free 

The triumphal return of Tony Blair to Parliament this week was somewhat diminished both by Labour?s less than overwhelming victory in the general election and by the fact that both he and the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard, have signalled ...

 Texts in full

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

 Columnists

Madeleine Bunting

?What we seem to be in danger of losing grasp of is the very idea of civility?

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Anne Wroe

?By writing biography, we recast in the world the shadow of a living soul?

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 Books and arts

New light on a forgotten visionary Free 
The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1)
Ed. Jan Ross
There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...

New light on a forgotten visionary Free 
The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1)
Ed. Jan Ross
There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ...


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Medics don't want assisted dying legalised
Dr Gillian Paterson, guest contributor

Both my parents died of cancer. Both had painkilling medication in the final stages: shortening ...

Why do Catholic schools need to turn to Stonewall?
Elena Curti

There is astonishment and rage in some quarters that a Catholic primary school invited the ...

Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann

So Rome has ordered Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland, three months after it was ...