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Latest issue: 4 February 2012
Last updated: 4 February 2012

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Special Reports

To mark the 40th anniversary of the landmark encyclical that banned Catholics from using artificial birth control, The Tablet commissioned a major research into practising Catholics’ beliefs and attitudes, especially around sex and contraception. 

Part 1 looks at devotional practices, Mass-going and paths to faith and part 2 finds that most practising Catholics ignore its teaching on birth control and more than half think it should be revised.

       

 In this week’s issue

Back to basics
Faith and unity through diversity
Holy hearts that know how to adore
Lifetimes of service
For the halt and the lame
Tablet Education
A heart-warming tail
Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor

Why the Benedictine family will survive
Christopher Lamb

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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