Delivering the inaugural JRS annual lecture in London last night, chaired by Tablet trustee and broadcaster Julie Etchingham, the Children’s Commissioner for ...
Speaking to The Tablet at Ireland’s national seminary in Maynooth, the cardinal said he wanted the seminarians studying for priesthood to “go forth and tell ...
MY PARENTS would have been delighted at the news that the National Theatre is to revive David Hare’s play Plenty. When we went to see the film version ...
The “baths” were a communal pea-green pool, and I remember one of our chaplains, a busy young Fr Nick King SJ, rolling up his ...
THERE IS A CONTRAST between the blankness of a corpse and the sacred aura with which the dead are sometimes invested. The sacred is a power to be feared. If ...
IN JANE AUSTEN’S novels, the “wild landscapes” of the heart, brought centre stage a generation later by the Brontës, are ...
IT’S A SUNNY Wednesday lunchtime in west London, and the hum of traffic doesn’t stand a chance against the hubbub of young voices recently reunited after the ...
A Welsh poem, Y Gair (“The Word”), by the late Euros Bowen, a priest from the industrial valleys of South Wales, begins with ...
The other, the Chinese ruler-for-life Xi Jinping, feels no need to show up at the UN in New York even though he was content to travel to Washington for the ...
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