Unique in its international coverage of religion, current affairs, politics, social issues and the arts, The Tablet is a weekly Catholic journal which has been reporting on events of significance for over 170 years.

Every week The Tablet provides in-depth and balanced coverage on a wide range of subjects and its contribution to topical issues is strengthened by its contributors: each issue contains the work of writers drawn from all over the world.

The complete archive, of over 8000 issues, is now available for institutional subscribers. Fully searchable and easily navigable, this is undoubtedly one of the best resources available for tracing the history of the Catholic Church and world events over the last 170 years.

Latest Issue

The virus and the virtues

Coronavirus has shown that what makes the difference in a crisis is not algorithms or protocols, but virtue and character / BY JULIAN C. HUGHES



Finding God in the Blitz

When the air raids began in London 80 years ago, no spiritual writer caught the feeling of helplessness better than Caryll Houselander / BY MARY FRANCES COADY



‘If you’re called to this life, you are given the grace’

In the fourth of our series on the paths of women Religious, Sr Josephine Parkinson, prioress of Stanbrook Abbey, speaks of a life devoted to prayer / BY BLANCHE GIROUARD



Light shines in the dark

The discovery of complex mathematical tables and scientific instruments puts paid to the myth that the Middle Ages were dominated by superstition / BY SEB FALK