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The Tablet The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for more t

The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for more than 180 years.

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22/12/2025

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Nigerian authorities have announced the release of a further 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nove...
22/12/2025

Nigerian authorities have announced the release of a further 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in November, after 100 were freed earlier this month and another 50 escaped custody the second day after the abduction. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria said in a Christmas message, “While injustice has wounded our common life, Christmas assures us that these patterns are not irreversible. What has been fractured can be rebuilt, and what has been wounded can be healed, if we accept the shared responsibility.”

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Pope Leo XIV has accepted Bishop Terence Drainey’s resignation as Bishop of Middlesbrough and has appointed Bishop Marcu...
22/12/2025

Pope Leo XIV has accepted Bishop Terence Drainey’s resignation as Bishop of Middlesbrough and has appointed Bishop Marcus Stock as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

Bishop Stock will retain his current office as Bishop of Leeds. He said that Pope Leo desires the Dioceses of Middlesbrough and Leeds to “journey together in mission, work in close collaboration and gain from each other’s strengths in order to secure the future of the Church’s witness to Christ across the regions we serve”, and that he will undertake to explore how to do this “with the clergy, lay faithful and religious of our two historic sister Dioceses”.

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Join The Tablet this Advent for a five-week online journey of reflection and renewal — exploring the season’s great them...
22/12/2025

Join The Tablet this Advent for a five-week online journey of reflection and renewal — exploring the season’s great themes of hope, waiting, and incarnation through Scripture, tradition, and contemporary insight.Each evening features a guest speaker, a short reflection or reading, and time for prayer or Q&A. Visit: www.thetablet.co.uk/events

Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham and Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton (now Archbishop-elect of Westmi...
22/12/2025

Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham and Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton (now Archbishop-elect of Westminster), lead bishops for dialogue and unity and for social justice for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, released the statement on 17 December in response to “the tensions that are growing in society and the desire by some groups to sow seeds of division within our communities”, which “does not reflect the spirit or message of Christmas”. They said: "The Holy Family had to travel to Egypt as refugees. We should empathise with all who come to this country for their safety."

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Church leaders in Jerusalem asked the Israeli authorities to allow children with leukaemia to travel from Gaza to a spec...
19/12/2025

Church leaders in Jerusalem asked the Israeli authorities to allow children with leukaemia to travel from Gaza to a specialist hospital in East Jerusalem. The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem made the request for permission for the children “to travel to the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives to receive specialised treatment that is only available to them there”.

Aid agencies report that two years of war in Gaza have destroyed much of the health system in the territory, leaving its hospitals unable to treat severe cases. Médecins Sans Frontières reported on Wednesday that children make up one in five of the 18,500 Palestinians in the territory who need medical evacuation, but travel is tightly restricted by the Israeli authorities.

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Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Right Rev Richard Moth as the new Archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent ...
19/12/2025

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Right Rev Richard Moth as the new Archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols. His appointment has been warmly welcomed by Cafod, the Jesuit Refugee Service, Caritas Westminster, the Catholic Union, Jesuits in Britain, and others.

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The domestic agency of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales, Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), has ...
18/12/2025

The domestic agency of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales, Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), has expressed “grave concerns” over the government’s new asylum plans. Anti-migrant policies fuel violence and threaten the very fabric of churches in England and Wales, CSAN warned.

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The proportion of people in Poland regularly attending Sunday Mass last year rose by just over half a per cent from 2023...
18/12/2025

The proportion of people in Poland regularly attending Sunday Mass last year rose by just over half a per cent from 2023 to 2024. The Church’s survey noted two main trends: that the numbers of priests and Religious continue to fall, while permanent deacon numbers rise, and that Mass attendance is stabilising.

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A group of 50 French Catholics who were killed by the N***s in the Second World War were beatified at the Cathedral of N...
18/12/2025

A group of 50 French Catholics who were killed by the N***s in the Second World War were beatified at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris on Saturday.

In the homily at the beatification Mass, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, said: “We have been living for eighty years in the longest period of peace that Western Europe has experienced in its long history, and yet we are not sheltered either from war or from violence. We have experienced a reconciliation of peoples. This is an effort which is never finished and which every generation must continue."

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The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for more than 170 years. Launched in 1840 just 10 years before the restoration of the hierarchy in England and Wales, it is the oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain.

On succeeding Catherine Pepinster as editor in July 2017, Brendan Walsh said: ‘I will do all I can to cherish and protect its values and the quality of its journalism.’ Among the most widely read columns are View from Rome by Rome correspondent Christopher Lamb, features and comment by Deputy Editor Lorna Donlon, global coverage of the universal church overseen by Foreign Editor James Roberts, plus more from Home News Editor Bernadette Kehoe and others.

The Tablet attracts some of the best writers in the UK and abroad to its pages. These include Christopher Howse, Clifford Longley, Joanna Moorhead, Richard Leonard, Peter Hennessy, Melanie McDonagh, Carmody Grey, Sara Maitland, Marco Politi, John Cornwell, Peter Stanford, Margaret Archer, Eamon Duffy and others. Glimpses of Eden, a weekly column by Jonathan Tulloch, is enduring popular, as is Living Spirit, reflections linked to the liturgical calendar. The Tablet’s editorial viewpoint as expressed weekly in its leaders builds on the legacy of the Second Vatican Council in a manner that is both contemporary and challenging.