FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
The financial reforms required Free Economic growth has transformed the world over the last two centuries, accelerating in the last 50 years. The world population has followed a similar pattern. The latest United Nations forecast is for it to rise from seven billion today to 10 or even ...
UK’s interests lie in Europe
FEATURES
 Man with a missionSam AdamsIn six short years, Keith Fernett has transformed a shabby seamen’s refuge in London’s Docklands into one of the capital’s best-equipped hostels for the homeless. He talked to Sam Adams about the next phase in the development of Anchor House – and breaking the cycle of poverty
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 Whatever happened to the northern Catholic heartlands?Paul WilkinsonThe Catholic Church once thrived in the north of England, serving a population that was part Irish, part recusant. Today, parishes are merging, churches are closing and Catholic culture is changing. In a special report, we examine the forces behind these changes and discover how church life is being reconfigured...
‘Participation of the laity is key’Paul D. MurrayThe northern dioceses of England and Wales are facing enormous challenges, write Paul D. Murray and Marcus Pound...
 Mark of the ‘Millennials’Michael Sean WintersWho are America’s Catholics? A wide-ranging survey reveals their gender, ethnicity and education and that the Church is becoming more Hispanic, more educated – and less concerned about the poor...
 Greening the pilgrims’ wayMary ColwellIn an increasingly secular age, journeys to worship at sacred places the world over are thriving. But how can the faithful and the protectors of holy sites ensure that they don’t inadvertently damage Creation through their worship of the Creator?...
 Formation of the human heartVincent NicholsFaith starts with God, as we’re invited into a relationship with him. But what is the path to faith, asks the Archbishop of Westminster, and how do we become more holy, more compassionate and more capable of listening to God and to others?
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Saints among usDaniel McCarthyThe faithful celebrate the sacraments and the sacrament of serving their neighbour, writes Daniel McCarthy, and these reveal the heavenly liturgy already among us...
Real heroes of HalloweenRichard Collins and Steve AlexanderBehind the annual Halloween celebration of ghosts and ghouls is a Christian holiday that marks the festival of All Saints’ Day. To help parishes and schools seize the catechetical opportunities that offers, a new series of podcasts have been produced that emphasise life rather than death...
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BOOKS AND ARTS
Heroes but also human beings Free
This Seat of Mars: war and the British Isles 1485-1746
Charles Carlton
E very age has written about war, and books about it abound today as never before. It is Charles Carlton’s aim to describe the development of the army in England between the battle ...
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SSPX leaders reject Vatican reconciliation offer
US bishops stand by criticism of Johnson’s book
Nuclear disarmament ‘a moral imperative'
DR Congo bishop wants crackdown on militia
Youth Catechism ‘Youcat' becomes world bestseller
Read the Vatican's call for a global financial regulator
The established Church should stay
Christopher Lamb
Finally, after more than 300 years, the heir to the British throne will be able to marry a Catholic.
The amending of the Act of Settlement, due to take place during this Parliament, ...
Is the SSPX the tail wagging the dog?
Robert Mickens
More and more it appears that the Vatican – or at least Pope Benedict XVI – has been bending over backwards in order to not offend the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) or ...
Holiness today: formation of the human heart
Archbishop Nichols delivers The Tablet lecture
Just four weeks ago, on the first anniversary of the visit of Pope Benedict to this country, the bishops' conference issued an unusual document, indeed a unique one. It laid out ...
Pell attacks climate change 'propagandists'
Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney
Eppur' si muove or "yet it moves" – one Christian perspective on climate change
Let me begin by thanking the Global Warming Policy Foundation for the invitation to ...
Patching up the old or investing in the new?
Francis Davis, Southampton
After an almost calamitous collapse of planning regarding Ushaw, Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has taken an inspiring lead in the work to save the College's physical and literary ...
Re-evangelising Catholic schools
John Canavan, via email
What a dismal picture of our Catholic schools Sam Adams paints in The Tablet (15 October); barely 70 per cent of pupils are Catholic and only 45 per cent of those working ...
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