CONTENTS 13 NOVEMBER 2010 COLUMNS


5 CLIFFORD LONGLEY ‘We are in danger of being governed by an unelected dictatorship’


15 CHRISTOPHER HOWSE’S


PRESSWATCH ‘There was every TV soap twist in Wayne’s wobble’


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


BOOKS


22 CATHERINE NIXEY Edith Cavell Diana Souhami


AMANDA HOPKINSON Sing, Sorrow, Sorrow: dark and chilling tales


Gwen Davies (ed.) DAVID GOODALL


Ronald Knox and English Catholicism Terry Tastard


ARTS


27 FEATURE Laura Gascoigne No New Thing Under the Sun


THEATRE Mark Lawson Broken Glass


RADIO D.J. Taylor He Belonged to Glasgow: the Will Fyffe Story


TELEVISION John Morrish Moving On: Losing My Religion


OPERA Robert Thicknesse The Duenna


6 How to do God Tony Blair Faith groups must work together if the voice of religion is to be heard in the public square, says the former Prime Minister


8 Distinguished – or discredited? Hugh O’Shaughnessy As a former Colombian president accused of human-rights abuses takes a role at a Jesuit university, many in the order are outraged


9 ‘I will not kill’ Victor M. Parachin The conscientious objector Ben Salmon refused to fight in the First World War, rejecting the Church’s just-war theory for the Beatitudes


11 Ethical luxuries Abigail Frymann Fairtrade jewellery, cosmetics, clothing and food are increasingly popular with shoppers, who don’t want to compromise in quality


12 Banking on reform David Boyle Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms will not succeed without a local banking infrastructure to support recovery


12 Debt, stress and health Paul Nicolson By eliminating the Health in Pregnancy grant, the Government could be putting the lives of vulnerable babies at risk


FEATURES


4 Church of two halves Michael Sean Winters A conservative Catholic has followed a liberal one as Speaker of the House of Representatives, highlighting the Church’s own divisions


14 Red Christian Christopher Lamb The Catholic Marxist intellectual Terry Eagleton tells The Tablet how the Left should rediscover theology


31 THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD Barcelona Mass ‘captures essence of this pontificate’


35 LETTER FROM BARCELONA


36 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND Bishops worried that cuts will hit poorest


COVER ILLUSTRATION: JON BERKELEY 13 November 2010 | THE TABLET | 3


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