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Latest issue: 18 May 2013
Last updated: 22 May 2013

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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

Being Christ’s hands and feet
An easeful death?
‘Give the poor the oil that anoints them with dignity: a job’
‘Migrants bring the vitality of non-Western spirituality’
Cosmic connection of the heart
Gross, and not so moral
Yes, we can confirm
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

Don’t stop there, Justine Greening, the current model of aid is problematic
Bishop Kevin Dowling, guest contributor

Welby's right - St Benedict has much to offer banking reform efforts
Laurence Freeman OSB

Pope attacks the tyranny of the markets
Cult of money is today's golden calf, warns Francis

Pope Francis yesterday gave his first major analysis on the causes of the global financial crisis. In a speech to ambassadors he said: I am pleased to receive you ...


Hospitals must ensure the LCP is not misapplied
Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre

The Liverpool Care Pathway, which sets out guidance about the care of dying patients, has come under fire from patients' relatives and some doctors who claim  it has been misapplied. Professor ...


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

This week the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, wrote to leaders of the three main political parties arguing that amendments are needed to the same-sex marriage bill - ...

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 ...