CONTENTS

22 MAY 2010

COLUMNS

11 DAVID BLAIR

‘Mr Jonathan must make a break from the rulers who looted Nigeria of billions’

15 PETER STANFORD

‘Clegg and Cameron seem curiously detached when they talk of social equality’

16 LISTEN TO THE WORD 17 PARISH PRACTICE 18 NOTEBOOK 19 LETTERS 20 LIVING SPIRIT 21 PUZZLES

RELIGIOUS BOOKS

22 NICHOLAS VINCENT

The Christian West and its Singers: the first thousand years

Christopher Page

IAN BOXALL

The Use and Abuse of the Bible: a brief history of biblical interpretation

Henry Wansbrough OSB

DANIEL P. KING

Spies in the Vatican: the Soviet Union’s Cold War against the Catholic Church

John Koehler

ARTS

29 FEATURE

Laura Gascoigne

Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings

RADIO

D.J. Taylor

Day One in Downing Street

JAZZ

Brian Morton

The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

THEATRE

Love the Sinner

Mark Lawson

TELEVISION

John Morrish

Wags, Kids and World Cup Dreams

8 If only it could be more than a game Chris Chivers

Little of the billions the World Cup in South Africa will generate will find its way to the people. Only long-term commitment will pay off

9 May the force be with us Maureena Fritz

The sense of empowerment that is the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is particularly welcome now

10 Shared values, common hopes

Catherine Pepinster and Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

At the second ecumenical Kirchentag in the gathering’s history, Protestants and Catholics in Munich found mutual roots and concerns

12 ‘We are called to serve the humanity of our

own time’ Pope Benedict XVI

On his visit to Portugal this month, the Pope explored the Church’s mission in the world today. Here we publish extracts of his homilies

14 Safe haven for the lost Daniel O’Leary

Like a lifeboat station, the Church must be a place offering succour for those struggling in sin, not a private club for the virtuous

33 THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD

Pope says Church must be missionary or die

38 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Nuncio’s stroke hits papal visit planning

COVER ILLUSTRATION: STAINED-GLASS WINDOW FROM THE CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN BERCHMANS, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA. PHOTO: PAT HARRINGTON

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FEATURES

4 Return of austerity Ben Andradi

As the Government makes difficult choices in its attempt to salvage the economy, it could look to the Church’s teaching for signposts

4 ‘They have committed no crime’ Austen Ivereigh

The politicians’ pledge that the children of illegal migrants will not be kept in immigration centres is a triumph for human rights

6 Finding the balance in end-of-life care David Albert Jones

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