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The Tablet
Topic Started: Saturday, 6. October 2007, 01:42 (1,087 Views)
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The Tablet is very important, its essential, but only when one runs out of bog paper :angel:
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Rose of York
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I would have thought it wise for a person totally dedicated to any organisation, to read publications that present the views of what they perceive to be disloyal members.

The Tablet is thought provoking.

It amazes me, how many people who object to The Tablet, and think it is absolutely shocking and they would not spend money on it, know what it has been written recently, in that magazine.
Keep the Faith!

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Bob Crowley

Our parish gets the Tablet, as I've seen it lying around. I'm also pretty sure one of the most sincere Catholics in our Vinnies Conference subscribes to it. What's the problem with it? I thought it was highly regarded.

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Gerard

It is highly regarded Bob, but not by some on the other end of the political spectrum.

(By the way, I dont read it - too political)

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Saturday, 15. November 2008, 00:51
As a subscriber I feel I have been sneered at once too often as a "Tabletista" reading "the Bitter Pill". It's childish and unbecoming.
I don't like this kind of dimissive labelling of people in general, O.S.B. Calling people such names as "Tabletistas" is just lazy stereotyping.
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Joseph Dylong
Saturday, 15. November 2008, 02:36
The Tablet is very important, its essential, but only when one runs out of bog paper :angel:
Dylong, do you have to be so graphic? :nono:
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Gerard

I think calling people "tabletistas" is intended to be derogatory and insulting. It certainly shows neither love nor respect.

I also think that when people come to a forum such as this they dont expect catholic magazines to be called bog paper and bitter pills.

OSB, though I choose not to read it I am with you on this one.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Because the Tablet claims to be Catholic, and some people believe it represents the Catholic Church, yet, it isnt always in conjunction with the Magisterium.

If people may be troubled by left wing or right wing material, then to avoid damage to their faith, they shouldnt read or study that information. The same thing applies to the Tablet, if you are grounded in Catholic Truth, then you can read the tablet without possibily being led to confusion.
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Some posts about left wing and right wing politics have been used to make a new thread, called


Christianity and Politics, right and left wing.

http://s10.zetaboards.com/Catholic_CyberForum/topic/7041833/1/#new
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I was once an occcasional reader of the Tablet. But I am afraid that I stopped reading the rag following the election of the Holy Father Benedict. The edition for that week was just plain nasty with its diatribes against the Holy Father whom they (the Tabletists) seem to think (and still think) is a total disaster - a fascist who wishes to take the Church back to the Stone Age (one of the more polite comments of the time).

Either you are Catholic, or you are not.

Mind, the Tablet is not exactly widely read with a circulation running at something less than 30,000 a week. And is it still true (as it was in the mid 1990's) that the majority of subscribers are still Anglican clergy?

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OsullivanB

I have been subscribing to and reading the Tablet for about 18 months. I have now been aware during that time of any hostility to our Pope - only affection and respect.

The current edition has (among other things) an article about the relevance of he Virtues to the economic crisis by the Abbot of Worth Abbey, Fr Christopher Jamison OSB; a discussion of the importance of preaching by the Professor of Homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology, St Louis, Missouri; the reflection already adverted to on the relationship between education and discipleship by the Emeritus Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, Nicholas Lash; an interview about the relevance of Catholic faith to work (one of a series) with the director of the Tavistock Mulberry Day Centre for children with extreme behavioural difficulties, Kajetan Kasinski; the weekly analysis of the Latin liturgy by Fr Daniel McCarthy OSB; an article about prison aftercare by the principal Roman Catholic chaplain for prisons, Mgr Malachy Keegan; fourteen book reviews, other arts reviews and the usual round of international and domestic news relevant to the Church. It ends with a two-column obituary of Fr Austin Flannery OP.

Show me a better publication to stimulate and inform the intelligent Catholic and I will buy, contrast and compare it with the one I read. All this comes through the post for £1.91 a week, less than the cost of two Catholic papers which between them would offer me a great deal less.

If we're going to discuss circulation figures, we may as well have accurate information. The circulation is not as William stated it but considerably less: 23,000. This is slightly more than that of the Catholic Herald (General Editor DT). I would be interested to see figures for the Catholic Times and Universe, but have not been able to find this info.
Edited by OsullivanB, Sunday, 16. November 2008, 13:48.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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Whilst I dont pay for the Tablet, I know what has been written recently because I look at the relevant articles in copies at the back of the Church.
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OsullivanB

That is why raw circulation figures are not very informative.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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OsullivanB

How about this as a piece of radical liberal thought:

"...in a secularised context in which many listeners are no longer brought up and enculturated in the Christian story, a number of Church people fear that preaching now is less biblical and barely orthodox - having been rediced to a therapy or mere entertainment."

(Professor Heille, The Tablet 15th November 2008, page 11)

Food for thought and discussion? Or better hung on a nail in the outhouse?
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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tomais

I will again receive the Tablet" as a Christmas present this year.; along with other relevant journals. in cluding " Life and Work".I also visit our main City Library and well as the " national Library"- thus exposing myself-( carefull now you tunnel vision bloggers- that light you see -with luck will be the 14.37 from North berwick) to as wide an array of published material as possible.
I have at the bed side Professors book on " DunsScotus" whose anniversary most of you will have not known about.
Use of the " Tablet" in the toilet could very well cause an illness, given what apsses for printers ink these days.
Now confession time for the intellectual myopic - name you daily paper(s); bought or otherwise read over someones shoulder-even " The metro".
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Tom,( who has both the " Universe" and "Scottish Catholic Observer" in the parlour).
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