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Latest issue: 25 May 2013
Last updated: 25 May 2013

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Links

The papal visit

Official site of Pope Benedict XVI’s September visit to the UK
The site for the cause for the canonisation of Cardinal Newman

Church head offices

Catholic Church in England & Wales
Catholic Church in Scotland
Catholic Church in Ireland
The Vatican
Catholic Education Service
Church of England
Lambeth Palace
World Council of Churches

Other religious news sites

BBC religion and ethics
Times – faith central
Telegraph religion

The Guardian religion pages
Reuters Faithworld
Independent Catholic News
The Irish Catholic
Zenit, Rome

America Magazine
Catholic News Service, US
Commonweal, US
National Catholic Reporter, US
Eureka Street, Australia
The Southern Cross, South Africa

Missionary International Service News Agency
Asia News
David Gibson, US Catholic political commentator
Rocco Palmo, US Catholic blogger
Index of Christian publications

Religious communities

Conference of Religious in England and Wales
English Benedictine Congregation
English Dominican Province

British Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Sant’Egidio
Sisters of Mercy of the Union of Great Britain
Society of St Vincent de Paul (England and Wales)
Taizé

Liturgy

Society of St Gregory
Royal Society for Church Music
Latin Mass Society
Musica Sacra, the Church Music Association of America
Catholic Music Network

Worship Central, Holy Trinity Brompton

Evangelisation and Catechism

Case (formerly the Catholic Missions Society)
RCIA Network
The Alpha Course

Youth and young adults

Cymfed (Catholic Youth Ministry Federation of England and Wales)
Jesuit Volunteer Community
Youth 2000

Pax Christi – volunteering opportunities
Soul Survivor
Project 2030
Evangelium conferences and courses
Xt3 Catholic social networking site

Young Christian Workers

 

Vocations

Diocesan Vocations Service for England and Wales
Priests for Scotland

The persecuted Church

Aid to the Church in Need
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Release International
Compass Direct News

Thinktanks

Theos
Ekklesia
Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics
(becoming the Anscombe Centre)

Christians in politics

Christian Socialist Movement
Conservative Christian Fellowship
Christians in Parliament

Charities

The Apostleship of the Sea
Cafod
Caritas Salford
Cardinal Hume Centre
Caritas Internationalis

Catholic Care

Christian Aid

Christian Ecology Link
Columbans (Britain)
Emmaus UK
The Good Counsel Network
Father Hudson’s Society
Housing Justice
Leonard Cheshire Homes
Life
Operation Noah
The Passage
Pax Christi International
Progressio
Pro-Life Alliance

Society of St Vincent de Paul (England and Wales)
Vincentians (Ireland)
Tearfund
World Vision

Libraries, museums and reference tools

Bible, searchable in more than 100 versions
Catholic National Library, based in Hampshire
Christian Classics Ethereal Library

English Catholic History 1550-1850 (various archives)
The 24 Vatican Museums
The Vatican Observatory 
New Advent encyclopedia

Christian Radio

Premier Radio, featuring Taking The Tablet
Vatican Radio 


       

 In this week’s issue

Unlikely partnership
Take the knocks – they do the Church good
Narnia’s custodian
Gather them in
On our forebears’ shoulders
Muslims are living in fear after the Woolwich murder
Fiyaz Mughal

Gay marriage and disestablishment: better the muddle you know?
Theo Hobson

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

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

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

Does Cardinal O’Brien deserve banishment or pardon? He at least owes us an explanation
Elena Curti, Deputy Editor

Take the knocks - they do the Church good
Popular culture is being surprisingly respectful of Catholicism now, argues Mark Lawson

Does religion get a fair treatment in television comedy? Giving the Digby Stuart Annual Lecture, Mark Lawson, The Tablet's theatre critic, surveyed the treatment of Catholicism, ...


Replace fear with boldness, cynicism with confidence
Lancaster bishop urges Church to ditch nostalgia and focus on mission

The Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell, issued an impassioned plea for the Church to refocus on mission and look forwards rather than basking in its past achievements ...


Mary, inspiration for students
US Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrates the secret of Notre Dame University

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, offers his reflections on Mary in the graduation speech to students at Notre Dame, one of the US's leading Catholic universities ...

Tiptoeing towards Scripture

Pope Benedict XVI has exhorted Catholics to become more familiar with their Bibles, in his round-up of the 2008 Synod on the Word of God. At the same time the Bible Society ...