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1 week ago | thetablet.co.uk | John Deane

Tablet features / One Irish Easter. A cosmic centre of redemptionI do not know how long I remained in the oratory but I do know the words of a great poem had touched my heartRegister 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.   Access to the weekly digital copy of The Tablet.

1 week ago | thetablet.co.uk | Ellen Teague

More than 2,000 pilgrims with Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust are to arrive in Lourdes over the Easter weekend for the largest annual children’s pilgrimage to visit the shrine in Southern France annually. More than 1300 people are going from England, Wales and Scotland, including 282 children and young people with disabilities and other needs, accompanied by 1018 volunteers including 45 clergy and 44 nurses.

1 week ago | thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald

The singer Adeniké Adewale is running the London Marathon on 27 April to raise funds for Cafod. Adewale, who is playing the role of Whitney Houston in the show Queen of the Night, said: “It is going to be an intense weekend … running the marathon will be the toughest physical challenge of my life.”She added: “My favourite place to run is in nature, in the early morning.

2 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brian Morton

Tablet features – Lent 2025 – a rowan rosaryGardeners piously announce that one never plants a tree for oneself but for one’s great-grandchildren. Serious tree people scoff at this notion. It is perfectly possible to plant a tree for yourself, just as it is to ask in prayer for a happy outcome in a personal health matter. Register 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.

2 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Patrick Hudson |Ellen Teague |Michael Sean Winters

The French Church’s fund to compensate sexual abuse of minors has recognised 1,235 cases since its founding in 2022 and paid 765 of them so far with sums of up to €60,000 euros, its president said in a report. The Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation (INIRR) began hearing individual claims after the Ciase study in late 2021 estimated 330,000 cases of abuse in the Church – two-thirds by clergy – since 1950.