To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best The year of The Tablet’s 175th anniversary is also the year of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, on Easter Sunday 1955. Teilhard was an eminent Jesuit, a passionate scientist and believer, and a much misunderstood prophet. All his life he felt he had seen something new, something he wanted to communicate to ­others, his “fundamental vision”, even “his gospel”. He saw, felt and experienced the all-transforming fire of love both human and divine, and the emergence of the cosmic Christ, culminating in what he called the “Christ-Om