The Tablet Lecture 20 October 2011, Westminster Cathedral Hall

	“Holiness Today: The Formation of the Human Heart” An exploration of the models of and quest for holiness in contemporary society. The Most Rev Vincent Nichols president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

The Tablet Lecture 21 October 2010, Westminster Cathedral Hall

	“An Ambassador’s perspective on the Vatican – a retrospective look over the past five years” Francis Campbell British Ambassador to the Holy See

The Tablet Lecture 10 September 2009, Heythrop College

	"Prodigal sons and daughters: my dreams for the future of the Church" Gerald O'Collins SJ Research Professor in Theology at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, and Emeritus Professor of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

 The Tablet Lecture 22 November 2008

Our Lost Children: the Challenges of Raising
Young People Today
Michael Holman SJ

The talk was introduced by Catherine Pepinster, The Tablet's editor.

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The Tablet Lecture 2006

James Alison delivered a lecture entitled:

"Sacrifice, Law and the Catholic Faith: is secularity really the enemy?"

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The Tablet Lecture 2005 Audio

“DEAD MAN WALKING - THE JOURNEY CONTINUES”

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
AUTHOR OF DEAD MAN WALKING AND THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS

Sister Helen Prejean, the human rights activist whose campaign against the death penalty inspired the Hollywood movie Dead Man Walking, gave The Tablet Lecture on Monday 28 November. Her first book, Dead Man Walking, was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In it she recounted her spiritual journey accompanying those convicted of crimes who are sentenced to death, and in her latest book The Death of Innocents she takes us to the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment and asks: what if we’re killing the wrong person?

Sister Helen, a Catholic nun, tackled these issues in her Tablet Lecture “Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues”.

Further reading
The Tablet Interview Sister Helen Prejean

Rendering Unto Caesar
Catholicism, Politics, Law and Democracy

The lecture took place at Lincoln’s Inn on Thursday 13 January 2005 and it was chaired by Cherie Booth QC. Click on the link below to read texts by  Cherie Booth, Aidan O'Neill QC, Doctor Thomas D'Andrea, Professor Conor Gearty and Timothy Radcliff.

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The Tablet Open Day 2003

Cherie Booth delivered a lecture entitled

"Human Rights and the Catholic Church"

at The Tablet Open Day 2003.

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Cherie Booth also delivered The Tyburn Lecture in the same year entitled:

"A Catholic Perspective on Human Rights"

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The Tablet Open Day 2001

Jacques Dupuis delivered the The Tablet Open Day lecture 2001. Read full text here.

  President of Ireland at Tablet Open Day 2000

Some 400 people packed the Congress Centre in central London on Friday 1 December to hear the Irish President, Mary McAleese, give the address at this year's Tablet Open Day. Her speech is reproduced here.