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The Tablet
Topic Started: Saturday, 6. October 2007, 01:42 (1,081 Views)
Rose of York
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Due to the Postal Workers strike the whole of this weekend's Tablet including the Letters Page is available free, online.

Click this link to read it

The Tablet can be quite controversial. There's plenty to argue about in this edition.
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
Rose of York
Oct 6 2007, 01:42 AM
Due to the Postal Workers strike the whole of this weekend's Tablet including the Letters Page is available free, online.

Click this link to read it

The Tablet can be quite controversial.  There's plenty to argue about in this edition.

Looks like one has to register to access its free content.


Post Script by Rose:

My post below this one explains how to access the site without registering[/b]
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To read this week's issue of the Tablet, Online,

do notclick the link in big red letters, that says This Week’s Tablet FREE

Scroll down, choose an item and click the heading.

The letters page in the left hand column has some very controversial contributions.

Please bear in mind, to comply with copyright law we can post extracts for discussion, but not whole articles, and we must give url links as acknowledgement.

Here is the link again.

Click this link to read it
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PJD

Rose:

I haven't gone into your link yet, but hope to do so.

In the meantime, about the postal workers, they seem to have a lot of sympathy from the general public. The general public are concerned also about Post Offices which, although they should be as competative as possible, are partly for a social benefit. Especially to pensioners.

Now I didn't know this, but their private competetors (dash can't spell that), seem to me to carry out the easy work - using machines etc. - but when it comes to walking up the path to put things into your door; then they use the post office. Nothing wrong with that, but at 11p a shot, if I were in charge of the post office I would either put their charges up or tell them to get lost.

Now what about anyone living in the wilds of Scotland - are private companies going to deliver a letter by hand up the garden path at 26p or whatever it is? I ask you.

Another thing; the TV put the case for the Post Office Managers - but I don't often hear anything about what the other side have to say. Although I don't watch TV a lot, so they might.

Just put this in to be going along with. I support the PO workers standing in line, and say say to their group 'God Bless You'.

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Hi all

I want to thank Rose for posting the link for the Tabet, I really enjoyed the read, and feel some "secular" papers, should read it for a taste of balanced journalism, I particularly liked the Israel/Iran article, and the story about the Goan Community in Swindon where over 3000 people attend sunday Mass what an inspiring story of how well our parishes can do when they welcome immigrants.

Allan
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PJD

Scroll down, choose an item and click the heading.


Didn't work for me Rose - they all wanted you to register.

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There is a good article on the Mental Capacity Act, written by David Albert Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. St Mary's is a Catholic college.

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Professor Jones mentions a publication, The Mental Capacity Act and "Living Wills"; a practical guide for Catholics which will be published later this month. The publication gives advice to Catholics on what steps to take in advance about procedures to be followed as death approaches.

I rather liked this bit:

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There are two aspects that need to be kept in mind; cherishing life and accepting death.  Cherishing life means that death should not be the aim of our action or of our inaction.  On the other hand, accepting death means that we should not flee from the inevitable by seeking every possible treatment that prolongs life even when prolonging it seems to be futile.


My view is that there comes a day when God calls us to leave our earthly bodies. At such a time, some doctors try to fight God, perhaps because they lack faith and think earthly life is all we have.
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PJD
Oct 6 2007, 09:33 PM
Scroll down, choose an item and click the heading.


Didn't work for me Rose - they all wanted you to register.

PJD

One loses nothing by registering. It is free. Every week registered persons receive an email with links to a selection of free articles.
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Being a born tyke, I took advantage of the free opportunity. I found the instructions confusing and conflicting but I did manage to get my moneysworth for nowt!
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You can't get the Catholic Herald free on line this week,in spite of the fact that it too was affected by the postal strike and I still await delivery, but some articles can be accessed via the website. One concerning Gordon Brown and the Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, which is to be included in the Queen’s Speech this autumn.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features_o...features_4.html
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PJD

KatyA

I did download your link above; saved it and will read later. However as has been shown - a week is a long time in politics - Brown has been damaged.

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Joseph

Thanks Rose for posting that link to the Tablet, and for recommending the Letters' Page too - very interesting (and somewhat controversial of course, as we may expect).

Any comments on (Fr) Owen Hardwicke’s letter to The Tablet “Eucharist and community!"? In it he disputes that “the ordained priest represents the faithful to God” at the Eucharist, but only ”presides”, arguing that “otherwise it should follow that he will not receive communion at all”. Claiming therefore that “at Communion the priest is only one of the people of God” he applauds “the Dutch Dominicans who in circumstances of the shortage of ordained celibates ask for suitable laypeople to be authorised/ordained to preside”.

Is this where we are heading in the not too distant future I wonder? The thin end of the wedge, that began with lay-participation in the Mass and has already extended to lay-led Services of Readings and Communion, may soon be widening if Fr Hardwicke’s views are generally accepted.
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Joseph
Oct 7 2007, 10:16 PM


Any comments on (Fr) Owen Hardwicke’s letter to The Tablet “Eucharist and community!"?

Joseph didn't you read our lively discussion on the Dutch Dominicans who came up with the idea of laity offering Mass? Our members are far from keen on the idea. It is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Link to the discussion
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I just had a quick look at the letters page and I wish I hadn't. I read the one from Fr. Hardwicke and one from Fr Fagan . If these are representative of our priests then no wonder the Church in England is struggling.
I knew there was a good reason I never read the Tablet - even when it's free.

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Katy if you want to learn more about Fr Sean Fagan try this:

http://litpress.org/Detail.aspx?ISBN=0814659268

When you are over the shock read this:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/408/36.php

I am all for a free press, but I am not happy about The Tablet calling itself Catholic. There are plenty of people around who think Father is always right. This Father's printed guff has been criticised by the Irish bishops.
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