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Vol 13 No 176 April 2010
4 LEAD STORY
Dying well
THE RIGHT REVD DAVID JAMES
responds to campaigns to change the present law and argues passionately against so-called assisted suicide
7 Future liturgy
PETER ELLIOTT
A postscript to last month’s lead article
7 Church landscape
ANDREW EDWARDS
Online survey from the National Churches Trust
8 Travel delay
ALAN EDWARDS
on the British tendency to dither before seting off
3 Anglican Catholics, Catholic Anglicans…
ERNEST SKUBLICS
believes the time has come for an end to the fudging and confusion
9 Infringement of copyright
DWIGHT LONGENECKER
disapproves of the hijacking of the term ‘Catholic’ by Lord Harries of Pentregarth
13 A sister diocese
RONALD CRANE
describes a visit to the Anglo- Catholic diocese of Ho in Ghana
17 Changing an unchanging Church
GEORGE HACKNEY
on developments in the organization of the Orthodox Church in England
18 The last chapter
Why it is so difficult to picture John chapter 21
22 Lead kindly light...
quotes from Cardinal Newman
23 Fallen angels
DIGBY ANDERSON
argues that the English have collectively rejected their Christian identity
24 The extra mile
PAUL GRIFFIN
on the relationship between Christian morals & common sense
24 Taking the Devil seriously
NICHOLAS TURNER
on the need for discretion in tackling evil
25 A plea for openness
JULIAN MANN
on Conservative Evangelical bishops
26 From elsewhere
NIGERIA – Church leaders protest NETHERLANDS – Gays against Rome GERMANY – Restoring Sundays USA – Welcome to Bishop Glasspool MALAWI – Donor pressure
29 Views, reviews & previews
ART: Henry Moore; BOOKS: Money; Wiling, Wanting, Waiting; Moral Clarity; Liſt High the Cross
33 Christ in the cabbage field
MARGARET LAIRD
Reredos in Truro Cathedral
and not content
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regulars
6 GHOSTLY COUNSEL
ANDY HAWES
on the duty of hope
8 HEARING THE WORD
PATRICK REARDON
on hope and the Gosel
10 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS
ARTHUR MIDDLETON
on Neville Figgis CR
12 DEVOTIONAL
MARY BOSANQUET
on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
DIRECTORY 30 DAYS
EDITORIAL LETTERS
FOOTNOTES FIF UPDATE
LAST CHRONICLE PEVS’ DIARIES
2, 36 16 20 21 35 36 39 39
12 SACRED VISION
MARK STEVENS
on Spencer‘s Resurection
15 TRAWLING THE NET
ED TOMLINSON
on the Pope’s offer
19 THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
GEOFFREY KIRK
on conflicting Mariologies
34 SECULAR LITURGIES
TOM SUTCLIFFE
on the power of Germany
35 TOUCHING PLACE
SIMON COTTON
on the BVM, Batcombe
in ND: ‘liberal’, ‘catholic’, ‘evangelical’. It wasn’t me, you understand, who invented these titles. Heavens
s a writer, are you ‘lazy’, ‘tired’, ‘unimaginative’? Do you wish to convey a subtle air of ennui and world-weary lassitude? Are you a master of irony and the knowing
ironic nod? Or do you simply hope to hide your inability to think beyond clichés, and to pass off your indolence as wit and wisdom? What you need are quotation marks. New Directions,
for some old-fashioned reason, keeps them single. Most contemporary publications (following American paterns of “beter more than less”) compound the ugliness – or heighten the effect – by using them doubled. O vile lumps of diacritical rubbish. Direct quotation of the words spoken or writen by
another person is, of course, perfectly reasonable, but where did this horrid habit come from, that disowns so many words and phrases used? To keep to the subjects most oſten found
no. Nothing to do with moi. I would have devised adjectives much more sophisticated, but one does have to use the
common parlance, or one’s readers might not understand. ‘Women priests’, ‘traditionalists’. Don’t suppose for a
moment that I acknowledge any such status to these wretched people, but one does have to use these titles, without being contaminated by actually touching them. What cowardice! What despicable laziness! Irony?
Absolutely not. It is sheer bad faith. Tere are a number of alternatives – so-called; self-styled; supposed; alleged; professed; assumed; susected… Each, clearly, has a meaning; but if that is what you mean, then say it. Tis lack of commitment; this fear of taint; this hiding
behind other people’s judgement. It’s horrid. And all this from a litle piece of punctuation. Who’d’ve thought it?
Jack Taylor ND
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