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Brendan Walsh

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Editor at The Tablet

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  • 2 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brendan Walsh |Liz Dodd |Oliver Letwin |Chris Patten

    On 16 May, it was 185 years since our first issue was published, edited by Frederick Lucas, a former Quaker. To mark our birthday, we asked some of our friends and contributors to reflect on their hopes and fears for the next 15 years – in other words, between now and our bicentenary in 2040. Popes don’t change the Church as much as we sometimes imagine, but it feels as if the ground beneath our feet shifted in the Francis era.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brendan Walsh

    Leo has the Augustinian genius of allowing everyone to have something of what they want … and giving no one everything they think they want. We all noticed the mozzetta and the nod to the “synodal Church”. A smidgeon for everyone. There were nerves, of course, and he didn’t always seem quite sure what to do with his hands. But Leo looked comfortable in his skin.

  • 1 month ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brendan Walsh

    “Don’t forget the poor.” These are the words that the Brazilian Cardinal Cláudio Hummes famously whispered in the ear of Jorge Mario Bergoglio after his fellow cardinals had elected the Archbishop of Buenos Aires as Pope at the conclave 12 years ago. I confess the words, “Be afraid, be very afraid …” crossed my mind when someone asked me what I would whisper in the ear of the man who enters the conclave of 2025 as a cardinal and emerges as Pope. Friends and colleagues are less jittery.

  • 1 month ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brendan Walsh

    Vincent Nichols, 79, the Archbishop of Westminster since 2009 and a cardinal since 2014, has led the Church in England and Wales through a particularly rocky period. A forceful president of the bishops’ conference and a capable and sometimes combative media performer, he has maintained strong relationships with the Church of England and other faith groups, in particular Islam. Views differ over his effectiveness as a political operator and as the administrator of a large archdiocese.

  • Jan 14, 2025 | thetablet.co.uk | Brian Morton |Brendan Walsh

    Although David Lodge, who died on 1 January aged 89, will forever be regarded as a ‘campus novelist’, he was much more than thatAlthough David Lodge, who died on 1 January aged 89, will forever be regarded as a ‘campus novelist’, he was much more than thatRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £37.50 quarterly   Print copy of The Tablet delivered directly to your door.   Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content.

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Brendan Walsh
Brendan Walsh @brendanwalsh53
6 Jun 25

Frances Wilson in @The_Tablet: it was after her conversion to Catholicism in 1954, at the age of 36 that Muriel Spark converted from a talented critic & editor to one of the most acclaimed and successful novelists of the twentieth century https://t.co/v7slTLWm42

Brendan Walsh
Brendan Walsh @brendanwalsh53
6 Jun 25

Tongues of fire – Catherine Coldstream (#Cloistered) recalls Pentecost in Carmel: “Of all the feast days in the Church’s year, Pentecost is surely the most dramatic and the most disruptive” https://t.co/MhlMuZmm56

Brendan Walsh
Brendan Walsh @brendanwalsh53
6 Jun 25

China’s rise is Pope Leo’s pre-eminent challenge: in @The_Tablet Paul Mariani SJ examines how Chinese Catholics can contend with the irreconcilable differences between a worldwide Church centred in Rome and a regime wary of foreign spiritual authority https://t.co/fExGU8VLIx