COLUMNS

5 CL I F FORD LONGLEY

‘If God was that bothered, why couldn’t he just pardon Adam and Eve?’

1 2 CHRISTOPHER HOWSE’S

PRESSWATCH ‘The app is for children so it was striking that the most popular theme was death’

1 3 L I STEN TO THE WORD 1 5 PARISH PRACTICE 1 6 NOTEBOOK 1 7 L ETTERS 1 8 THE L I V I NG S P I R I T 1 9 PUZZLES

BOOKS

2 0 ROBERT CARVER

Inigo Jones: the architect of kings Vaughan Hart Venice Disputed: Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian architecture 1550-1600 Deborah Howard

CHRIS S CHULER From the Mouth of the Whale Sjón, trans. Victoria Cribb

ARTS

2 4 F EATURE

Laura Gascoigne Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool

T E L EV I S I ON John Morrish We Need to Talk About Dad

THEATRE Mark Lawson The Lion in Winter

C I NEMA Francine Stock The Deep Blue Sea

RADIO D.J.Taylor Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys

CONTENTS

2 6 NOVEMBER 2 0 1 1

F EATURES

COVER STORY 4 The rich get rich and the poor get laid off

Stewart Lansley A new study in wealth inequality argues that gaps result in instability

6 Voters take a leap into the dark Jimmy Burns

Spain’s Jesuit-influenced premier arrives with a mandate to reform

7 Advent meditation: Flame of desire Laurentia Johns

The first in our series of reflections rooted in the Rule of St Benedict

8 Voodoo, pythons and the Pope David Willey

The BBC Rome correspondent records his encounter with Benin

1 0 When the bankers are manic and youth haven’t a hope Christopher Jamison This year’s Cafod lecturer considers how society can find a new sense of purpose

■ TABLET TRAVELLER: RETREATS AND P I LGRIMAGES

s1 From Martha to Mary Jill Langford

A taste of the eremitic life in the solitude of the Sinai desert s3 Silent witness Ellen Teague

Christian nonviolence is at the heart of a retreat in rural Kent s4 In search of St John Peter Newsham

The island of Patmos is a revelation for one pilgrim s6 Outposts of the Word Isabel de Bertodano

Franciscan spirituality on California’s mission trail s8 When the call comes Catherine Pepinster

Christ is not just addressing Matthew in Caravaggio’s masterpiece s10Checkpoints and churches Abigail Frymann

A Marian tour in Israel visits sites connected with the Virgin s12 Heady with holiness Daniella Peled

Sanctity fuses with national identity in a Georgian church

2 8 THE CHURCH I N THE WORLD

Pope urges Africa’s Catholics to be builders of peace

3 2 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND I RELAND

We’ve failed abuse victims, bishops admit at meeting

3 5 OBITUARY Elizabeth Rendall

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