Last updated: 06 October 2014 Log In Home News Features Comment Arts About us Archive Jobs Student Zone Subscribe Advertise Help Contact us LATEST ISSUE: 4 OCTOBER 2014 The synod without a script Massimo Faggioli As the Synod on the Family opens tomorrow, the fifth in our series looks at some of the 253 participants from around the world, and examines the gamble – perhaps a defining moment of his pontificate – Pope Francis has taken in encouraging open dialogue and debate Editorial Features Columnists Home News World News Parish Practice Notebook Letters Letters Extra The living Spirit Puzzles Books Arts Classifieds DIGITAL/PDF VERSION For iPads and other devices PREVIOUS ISSUES Previous Issues 4 October 2014 27 September 2014 20 September 2014 13 September 2014 6 September 2014 30 August 2014 23 August 2014 16 August 2014 9 August 2014 2 August 2014 26 July 2014 19 July 2014 12 July 2014 5 July 2014 28 June 2014 21 June 2014 14 June 2014 7 June 2014 31 May 2014 24 May 2014 17 May 2014 10 May 2014 3 May 2014 26 April 2014 19 April 2014 12 April 2014 TABLET SUBSCRIPTION Manage my account WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER Sign Up BLOGS Hong Kong's protestors have already partly won Tom Kennedy Can we have forgiveness for Bishop Kieran? Mark Coley Euthanasia for prisoners is the wrong way out for everyone Rachel Billington @THE_TABLET SPECIAL FEATURES The Tablet Lectures Gallery The Tablet Shop Sts John Paul II, John XXIII Liturgical calendar Pope Francis' election 50th anniversary of Vatican II Spirituality Links TABLET LECTURE 2014 THE TABLET ARCHIVE About us The Tablet is a British Catholic weekly journal that has been published continually since 1840. It reports on religion current affairs, politics, social issues, literature and the arts with a special emphasis on Roman Catholicism while remaining ecumenical. It is committed to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council. Contributors to its pages have included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and Pope Paul VI, as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini. More recently theologians such as Fr Hans Küng, Professors Eamon Duffy and Nicholas Lash, and Dr Rowan Williams and Jane Williams have written for the publication, along with figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Cornwell, Stephen Hough and David Willcocks. It was launched in 1840 by a Quaker convert to Catholicism, Frederick Lucas, and is the second-oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain after The Spectator, which was founded in 1828. For 67 years it was in the possession of successive archbishops of Westminster. Since 1976 it has been owned by The Tablet Trust, a registered charity. Its trustees include Lord Patten, Baroness Shirley Williams, Baroness Helena Kennedy and Edward Stourton. The editor of The Tablet is Catherine Pepinster, who was formerly executive editor of The Independent on Sunday. Appointed in 2004, she is the paper’s first female editor. She said in her first Tablet leader that the journal will continue to provide a forum for “progressive, but responsible Catholic thinking, a place where orthodoxy is at home but ideas are welcome.” For a full history of The Tablet, click here. Home - Terms & Conditions - Accessibility - Contact Us © The Tablet Publishing Company 2013 - 2021, All Rights Reserved Designed, developed and hosted by Digital Virtue