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CONTENTS 1 OCTOBER 2011 COLUMNS


11 CATHERINE PEPINSTER ‘The infantilism of the “Father knows best” view of the world still thrives’


14 CHRISTOPHER HOWSE’S


PRESSWATCH ‘Dr Williams likes quodlibets, and Frank Skinner’s is a good one’


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


RELIGIOUS BOOKS


21 HILMAR PABEL True and False Reform in the Church Yves Congar, trans. Paul Philibert


JAMES KELLY A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Riccci 1552-1610 R. Po-chia Hsia Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit encounter with the East Mary Laven


JOHN CORNWELL God’s Biologist: a life of Alister Hardy David Hay


ARTS


27 FEATURE Jann Parry Degas and the Ballet


CINEMA Francine Stock Melancholia


THEATRE Mark Lawson Grief


TELEVISION John Morrish What’s the Point of Religion?


12 Labour isn’t working again Julia Langdon That leader Ed Miliband avoided making any policy promises is seen as symptomatic of the party’s continuing impotence


31 THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD Pope tells Germans to put the faith first


34 LETTER FROM GERMANY


35 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND Non-Catholic pupils continue to swell rolls of church schools


COVER PHOTO: PA 1 October 2011 | THE TABLET | 3


8 Benedict’s balancing act Robert Mickens With negotiations to bring the Lefebvrists back into the fold, the Pope treads a tightrope meeting Protestants, Jews and Muslims


10 The Listening Heart Benedict XVI In an edited extract from his address to the Bundestag, the Pope calls for a debate on how reason, informed by faith, enlightens the world


FEATURES


4 Hope out of horror Terry Philpot A doctor from Gaza says he has been inspired by an horrific family tragedy to work for peace between Israelis and Palestinians


6 Second chances Christopher Lamb Can Rome’s Greek cousins help lessen the hardship suffered by remarried divorcees denied Communion by their own Church?


THE POPE IN GERMANY


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