ad1
Latest issue: 20 October 2012
Last updated: 22 October 2012
HOMEABOUT USSTUDENT ZONEADVERTISESUBSCRIBECONTACT USHELPLOG IN

CURRENT ISSUE

Editorial
Home News
World News
Columns
Notebook
The living Spirit
Letters
Letters Extra Free 
Classifieds
Puzzle
Books and Arts

PDF VERSION

E-VERSION

SEARCH

SPECIAL REPORTS

Blessed John Paul II
The Tablet Lectures
The UK Papal Visit
Newman beatified

OBITUARIES

PODCASTS

GALLERY

TABLET SHOP

SPIRITUALITY

What’s Catholicism
Glossary
Spirituality

LINKS

NEWSLETTER

MY SUBSCRIPTION

The ethical cell

David Albert Jones

Most stem-cell research in Britain makes use of so-called ‘spare’ human embryos left over from fertility treatment. But the work of two scientists who were last week awarded the Nobel Prize has opened up an exciting – and ethical – alternative Free 

 From the editor’s desk


Listen to the laity Free 

Nobody could accuse the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI of lacking in ideas and initiatives. There is the Year of Faith, just beginning, which commemor­ates the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council and also the twentieth ...

Preparing the Prince

It is well known that the Prince of Wales is in the habit of writing letters to government ministers expressing his personal views on controversial matters. It is not known what these matters are, though the prince has gone on the record on a variety ...

 Texts in full

'Ageist' health care discriminates against the elderly
Bishop Anthony Fisher takes aim at advisory body NICE
Good evangelisation requires listening and self-awareness
Archbishop Bernard Longley speaks at Synod of Bishops in Rome

 Features

 Columnists

Sara MaitlandSara Maitland

‘Electricity is a pivotal example of and a rich metaphor for the Holy Spirit'

read more

Clifford Longley Clifford Longley

‘To insist that the law criminalise all abortions is to ask for the moon and get nothing'

read more

 Books and arts

Signpost to a higher love Free 
The Problem of Pain; Mere Christianity; Miracles; The Four Loves; The Screwtape Letters; The Great Divorce; Surprised by Joy
C.S. Lewis
 November next year marks half a century since C.S. Lewis' death; the blurb to the smart new edition of HarperCollins' "Signature" series, seven of his books ...


^ Back to top

       

 The Tablet Blog

Cardinal Woelki's refusal of a pro-gay award sends out sad message
Abigail Frymann

Any church leader will be torn between reaching out to his flock pastorally and teaching ...

Vatican II anniversary: do not leave the Good News in a cemetery of our making
Fr Peter Day, guest contributor

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was an old man, but at 77 years decided that things had to change. ...

Savile allegations show new moral seriousness
Abigail Frymann

We are far from hearing the end of the scandal surrounding Sir Jimmy Savile. Rarely has ...