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The Tablet
Topic Started: Saturday, 6. October 2007, 01:42 (1,084 Views)
OsullivanB

Fortunatus, I read The tablet every wek and it seems clear to me that you are wrong. Plainly you do not read The Tablet. That's fine. But why do you feel the need to misrepresent it? At least show some evidence for the hatred (very, very strong word) you discern. You use the present tense, so perhaps your illustrations could be drawn from issues published in the last two years?
Edited by OsullivanB, Friday, 21. November 2008, 17:21.
"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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Fortunatus

Gerard, since by your own admission you don't read the Tablet I'm not sure that you're qualified to judge whether my comments on it are valid or not.
It also appears that you didn't either read my post or even your own quote lifted out of it since the word "appear" is there for all to see, in my original it's even stressed.

OsB, sorry, but I must be getting past it. On my screen there is a link direct to an article published in July last year. Unless we've changed the laws of mathematics recently, that is within the last two years. When I have the time and the inclination I may well find further similar articles.
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OsullivanB

Fortunatus, Thank you for confirming that you judge The Tablet without reading it.

I wouldn't dream of suggesting you are past it. There is probably some other, much less disturbing, reason why you are apparently unable to distinguish between mild criticism and hatred. Unreasoned prejudice would seem a fair working hypothesis. I've been known to suffer twinges of it myself.
Edited by OsullivanB, Friday, 21. November 2008, 21:57.
"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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This week's Tablet defends Church Teaching.

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/12300

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The Church cannot abandon its efforts to oppose abortion, just as it cannot let governments dictate its position on homosexuality.


No doubt some will object to the next bit. I agree, that pro-life policies extend during lifetime after birth, not just while a person is in the womb.

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But such teachings will be ill understood, and will not find resonance in the Catholic community when it comes to elections, unless they are placed in an overall framework of positive values. This is the real significance of the seamless garment argument. A Church leadership which upholds and defends life at all stages will gain more attention and respect from its own members and from outside its ranks than one that seems fixated on a single issue. Indeed, that fixation arguably makes abortion more tolerated. This is why the reaction of some Catholic bishops in America to the election of Barack Obama is so disappointing. State intervention to ensure the poor have access to adequate health care is no less pro-life than state intervention to reduce abortions, which, incidentally, Mr Obama has also promised, although not by invoking the criminal law. There is room here for at least two and a half hearty Catholic cheers, if not the full three.

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Fortunatus, Thank you for confirming that you judge The Tablet without reading it.
Where, exactly, did I say that? I've said I don't buy the Tablet; I've also said I read it when I get my hands on it after our PP has finished with his copy.
You obviously aren't paying attention.
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OsullivanB

So let's forget the hate. I no longer care.
"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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The posts about Fr Finigan of Blackfen have been used for a new topic.

http://s10.zetaboards.com/Catholic_CyberForum/topic/7094348/1/
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Thursday, 5. March 2009, 13:35
william of bow
Wednesday, 4. March 2009, 23:55
Let's be honest, the circulation of the Tablet, at only 22,000 (and declining month on month) is a death sentence. I have no doubt the rag will not be with us much longer. Thanks be to God.


Just like the liberals it caters for.

I am a subscriber to and regular reader of The Tablet. I don't care for you wishing me dead soon.

However generously I try to interpret those words, they still look poisonous, even if I am wrong to take them personally.
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"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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OSB
Don't worry . They are the typically unCatholic remarks of a brain-dead self-elected elite which can be safely ignored. Whether or not the Tablet survives , we shall see. The ideas it represents, of intellectually free , challenging and welcoming Catholicism will survive, so have no fear.

John
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The typically unCatholic remarks of a brain-dead self-elected elite which can be safely ignored.


John, contact Ma Pepinster today: what an absolutely brilliant masthead for La Tablet!

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The ideas it represents, of intellectually free , challenging and welcoming Catholicism


Such ideas must be well informed by the Tradition and the Magisterium, the doctrines and the dogma of 2,000 years of Church tradition. Intellectually free and challenging ideas are all very well but Church history teaches us that often such ideas take us down the slippy road to schism, error and heresy. Sadly, what I read in The Tablet is often anything but well informed...

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Intellectually free and challenging ideas are all very well but Church history teaches us that often such ideas take us down the slippy road to


Burnings ?
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Quicunque vult

Gerard wrote:

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Burnings ?


Possibly, if unrepentant on the Day of Judgement. But then it is not for us to know how God in His infinite wisdom will balance justice and mercy. :cool:

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I am going to enjoy this one.

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Deadlier sin of the male
Tina Beatie

Among the leading bankers that have brought the British economy to its knees there are no women. Could it be that the tendency to the sin of greed - as highlighted recently by the Pope - is primarily a male trait? If so, our assumptions of men's and women's sins are flawed

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Recent research at Cambridge University has revealed a connection between men's behaviour on the trading floors and their testosterone levels. Men with high testosterone levels are more willing to take financial risks, and that risk-taking boosts their testosterone levels even higher. The global economic crisis may be the result of a testosterone tornado sweeping through the banking world.
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A recent study revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily dressed women the same part of their brain is triggered into action as when they are preparing to use power tools.
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A recent study revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily dressed women the same part of their brain is triggered into action as when they are preparing to use power tools.

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Gentlemen, your comments please.

Is the sight of this an occasion of sin?

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Typical feminist twaddle of the sort one would expect from the Tablet, if you ask me.

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