content Vol 13 No 185 October 2010


4 LEAD STORY The truth in love METROPOLITAN HILARION OF VOLOKOLAMSK Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations addresses the Annual Nicean Club Dinner at Lambeth Palace


7 A parliament of fools DAVID NICHOL


on clergy couples and shared incumbencies


8 I wouldn’t swear to it ALAN EDWARDS


... uses a naughty word


9 Oh no you can’t MATTHEW CHINERY


on law, property and parishes


13 Gathering in the north GARY WADDINGTON


demonstrates it is different up there


14 Plotting the Pilgrim’s Progress THE BISHOP OF EBBSFLEET


reflects on Benedict’s visit


15 To protect and preserve Anglican tradition Te Statement issued on behalf of a group of Catholic bishops aſter the Sacred Synods


17 Having a good war DIGBY ANDERSON


says the Church should stick to what she does best


18 Thatched churches A look at some of the thantched churches, mostly found in Norfork


22 Is ARCIC forgotten? RONALD CRANE


on staying with what was agreed


23 Time for thanks RICHARD NORMAN


on thanksgiving in a cold climate


24 An old solution JOHN FENWICK


on the Free Church of England


24 Patriotism and establishment PAUL GRIFFIN


on Church Queen and Cannibalism


25 The Jensen brothers JULIAN MANN


on the Twin Peaks of Sydney


26 From elsewhere AMERICA – new Lutheran church body UK – standing ovation for Tatchell SCOTLAND – Female priests ask why God was still referred to as a man AMERICA – Texas political incorrectness AMERICA – Diocese sues for return of Stockton church property UK – Gay divorce is up in Britain


29 Views, reviews & previews


ART – Albert and Victoria Art and Love BOOKS – Anglo-Catholic in Religion, Supermac, Vita Communis, Lost Capital Of Byzantium


33 Celebrating Blessed John Henry Newman


I and not content


am, as I confided last month, rather stout. Not actually obese, but a good deal thicker in the girth than is good for me. Furthermore, like so many other gently-ageing


gentlemen, my cholesterol level is higher than it should be. Tis means, among other things, that I have to cut back


drastically on my consumption of cheese. OK, so my doctor actually told me to cut it out completely, but life doesn’t work like that. Do I go to Mass as oſten as my priest would like me to? Exactly, you get the picture. But cheese is, nevertheless, a rare treat, and all the more precious for being so. Despite a wet August, my crop of large, Mediterranean-


style tomatoes were ripening nicely in the greenhouse early September. Pick them warm, slice them thinly, salt, pepper, oil and vinegar, chopped basil, and – the sine qua non – a nice, sliced mozzarella (the Holy Father is partial to it too, we learn). Out in the sticks, one cannot hope for a London


6 GHOSTLY COUNSEL ANDY HAWES on Spiritual education


8 HEARING THE WORD PATRICK REARDON on the nature of faith


10 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS ARTHUR MIDDLETON on the historic discipline


12 DEVOTIONAL FLORENCE ALLSHORN on the search for reality


DIRECTORY 30 DAYS


EDITORIAL LETTERS


FOOTNOTES FIF UPDATE


LAST CHRONICLE PEVS’ DIARIES


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12 SACRED VISION NIGEL ANTHONY on St Catherine - 15th cent


11 TRAWLING THE NET ED TOMLINSON on a most revealing patrimony


19 THE WAY WE LIVE NOW GEOFFREY KIRK on the Pope and his detractors


34 SECULAR LITURGIES TOM SUTCLIFFE on on Ratigan and Coward


35 TOUCHING PLACE SIMON COTTON on St Katharine’s, Litle Bardfield


delicatessen, but there is one of the usual, competent supermarkets within a day’s drive. And they had the cheese. Imagine my horror (as they say) when the tomatoes all


ready, I opened the plastic packet to slice the mozzarella, and saw (what I had not hitherto perceived) a thin green line under the title, with faint white letering: ‘Reduced fat’. In all other resects, the package was indistinguishable from what I have enjoyed many times before. My rage and fury was unconfined. So my gardening cum culinary triumph was now topped


with weak, taste-free, leathery slices of non-vegetarian tofu- substitute – urgghh!! If people like that sort of thing, fine. What is objectionable


is this sneaky masquerading as the real thing. Sell cheese under the label cheese, and sell reduced-fat-diet-food on an entirely separate counter, preferably with a large, clear health warning: ‘Tis is fake!’


David Nichol ND October 2010 ■ newdirections ■ 3


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