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Latest issue: 11 February 2012
Last updated: 12 February 2012

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Spirituality




Here you’ll find material published in The Tablet as well as links to meditations and scripture readings.

In the golden silence, a silver tongue
James Roberts

For 25 years the celebrated Trappist monk Thomas Keating has dedicated his life to reclaiming the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer, as he explains to James Roberts, arguing for new ways of thinking about God and the crises in the Church 

   

Pray as you go
Jesuit Media Initiatives offers daily meditations that you can listen to on your pc or download on to your MP3 player

Weekly meditation reading
Reflections from the World Community for Christian Meditation, which is directed by Tablet columnist Laurence Freeman OSB

Sacred space
Scroll down the page for daily meditations from the Irish Jesuits that can be done at your desk

Living space
Also from the Irish Jesuits, commentaries on the day’s Scripture readings

Thought for the day
BBC Radio 4's reflections from a faith perspective, with contributions from the editor of The Tablet Catherine Pepinster and The Tablet's editorial consultant, Clifford Longley.

Divine Office
US site offering daily scripture and prayer in the ancient tradition of the Catholic Church. Available as podcasts.
 


       

 In this week’s issue

When the hurt stops and the healing starts
Making markets moral
Iron and velvet
Love in a Catholic climate
Someone to talk to
A good Lent takes planning
South American surprise
Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti

Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb

Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti

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

The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...


Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

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