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A few months ago, before the theatres were closed, our drama critic Mark Lawson praised Juliet Stevenson’s searing portrayal of a doctor refusing to allow a priest to anoint a dying patient, only a few hours after leaving his own mother’s deathbed; elsewhere in the same issue, Melanie McDonagh wrote that her mother had died the evening she was due to file her column, “to my annoyance, just as I was making tea in the kitchen”.

Melanie and Mark each wrote about the death of their mothers with a very Catholic sangfroid – it was reminder of how The Tablet combines brilliant writing with a take on things at an angle to every other magazine.