COLUMNS

7 CL I F FORD LONGLEY

‘There is a very fine line between a bribe, a tip, a gift and a fee’

1 5 CHRISTOPHER HOWSE’S

PRESSWATCH ‘On the contents of the archbishop’s column, I would rather not comment’

1 8 SARA MAITLAND

‘I use Lent rather than live Lent. I think the liturgy rather encourages this’

1 9 PARISH PRACTICE 2 0 NOTEBOOK 2 1 L ETTERS 2 2 THE L I V I NG S P I R I T 2 3 PUZZLES

BOOKS

2 4 S IMON S COTT P LUMMER

Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai Paul P. Mariani

JAMES KELLY Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and his Italian ambassador Catherine Fletcher

LAURA KENWORTHY This is Paradise Will Eaves

ARTS

2 7 F EATURE

Rick Jones The Cardinall’s Musick

T E L EV I S I ON John Morrish White Heat

THEATRE Mark Lawson In Basildon

C I NEMA Francine Stock The Raven, Bel Ami, Trishna

CONTENTS

1 0 MARCH 2 0 1 2

F EATURES

COVER STORY 4 Can marriage ever change?

Timothy Radcliffe, Martin Pendergast and Tina Beattie As Cardinal O’Brien’s comments bring gay weddings centre stage, three leading Catholics debate the proposed change in the law

6 Why Jack’s not all right Tom Hiney

Support for the far Right in Dewsbury is more down to concerns about the country’s moral malaise than racism, argues a local curate

8 In the footsteps of Juan Pablo Joanna Moorhead

When Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico, he will find a country where the most deprived are turning to cultic religiosity

1 0 Freedom is suffering Sally Read

Our series of Lenten meditations continues with the ejection of the money changers from the Temple, the gospel reading for this Sunday

1 2 Anglicanism is alive and well and living in the Big Apple Theo Hobson The C of E’s troubled relationship with secular liberalism prompted one adherent to seek his Church across the Atlantic

1 4 The whole world in their hands James Conroy

Comparative religion is not a threat to a child’s faith, but it must be taught within the traditions of Catholicism

1 6 A humane economy Mary Hirschfeld

St Thomas Aquinas was writing long before the word ‘capitalism’ came into use, but capitalist economies can learn from him

3 1 THE CHURCH I N THE WORLD

Dolan charges Obama with violating ‘first freedom’ of the US 3 4 L ETTER FROM ROME 3 5 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND I RELAND

Government rethink on gay marriage 3 8 OBITUARY

Lord St John of Fawsley

COVER ILLUSTRATION: DANI JIMENEZ

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