
Liz Dodd
Home News Editor at The Tablet
Improbable nun. Sister of St Joseph of Peace, former Home News Ed @The_Tablet, recovered round the world cyclist. Tweets/RT my own views.
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2 weeks ago |
thetablet.co.uk | Liz Dodd
It’s hot in the hills outside Rome, but the fields around the retreat centre where I’ve been part of an international gathering of young nuns aren’t yet the sandblasted yellow of late summer, and it’s cool under the trees that line the trail to the grotto. Convened by the Leadership Collaborative, a US-based organisation that fosters leadership among young women religious, “Hope 2025” drew 300 sisters from every continent except Antarctica.
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2 weeks ago |
thetablet.co.uk | Liz Dodd
Racism, neocolonialism and women’s leadership in the church were among the issues debated at a gathering of hundreds of young Catholic sisters in Rome last week. The conference, an unprecedented gathering of 300 Catholic sisters under the age of 65 from six continents, delivered in five different languages, grappled with the decline in vocations in the church in Europe and North America and the challenges facing young sisters from Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago |
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Liz Dodd
Who will emerge from the coming conclave in Rome as the next pope? In the latest Tablet newsletter (the twice-weekly newsletter can be signed up for via our website), Ruth Gledhill writes:When I spoke to Sister Liz Dodd CSJP for our latest Tablet podcast, naturally our thoughts turned to the death of Pope Francis, his funeral and legacy, and the coming conclave. She has a column in the coming print edition. She previewed a little of her reflections.
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2 months ago |
thetablet.co.uk | Liz Dodd
I do not think you need to be a disillusioned Labour voter to note the cruelty of the government’s economic proposals: being a Christian is enough. It has felt a little like that watching the Labour Party over the last few weeks.
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I know I'm biased but @The_Tablet is absolutely surpassing itself with coverage of the conclave. I'm so proud to be part of its orbit! Particularly proud of this episode of The Tablet podcast with @RuthieGledhill, looking ahead to papal contenders, and back at our beloved Francis

Pope Francis – his legacy, and the coming conclave. Check out my latest podcast for @The_Tablet with Sister @liz_dodd CSJP https://t.co/4lrrjgghBy

Become a nun! See the world! Arrive to find your US Sisters have sourced the exact kind of tea and Snyder Pretzel Bites you love! England wins the cricket while you sleep! Ministerial year is off to a cracking start #CatholicTwitter #nunsoftwitter https://t.co/tQN6mOqSIa

In today's modern nun update I'm enjoying repurposing the canon law bookshelf to cure the homegrown garlic. Added bonuses: no vampires, very Laudato Si #nunsoftwitter https://t.co/cBpVl54JWX