COLUMNS

Melanie McDonagh’s Notebook

‘Christians most exercised about homosexuality are astonishingly lax on divorce’ / 11

Liz Dodd

‘Church, here, is a place of defiant hope and defiant welcome’ / 16

REGULARS

Letters 18

The Living Spirit 19

Word from

the Cloisters 20

Puzzles 20

28 JANUARY 2023 // VOL 277 NO. 9487

FEATURES

4 / United for peace

As church leaders begin a joint visit to South Sudan, a Catholic priest based in the region looks at the impact of their historic journey / BY JOHN ASHWORTH

6 / The way of compromise

A former monk who is now an Anglican priest argues that the Church of England’s stand on same-sex marriage might be the best way forward / BY LUIGI GIOIA

PILGRIMAGE SPECIAL

8 / The olde waie to Walsingham

The pilgrim path from London to Walsingham has rarely been followed since the Reformation, but that is about to change / BY ANDY BULL

10 / The Tablet Interview: Ann Sieben

The solitary treks of the celebrated “servant pilgrim” have taken her across the world, relying on strangers for food and lodging / BY PETER STANFORD

14 / Another Russian revolution

An audacious plan for the reform and renewal of Russian Orthodoxy in August 1917 was followed by disruption, suffering and tragedy / BY DAVID GRUMETT

NEWS

28 / The Church in the World / News briefing 29 / Second woman accuses cardinal of sexual abuse

31 / View from Rome

32 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing

33 / Diocese in turmoil after bishop quits

COVER: DONATELLO AND MICHELOZZO, ADORING ANGEL. © VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON

ARTS / PAGE 22

Exhibition

Donatello

JOANNA MOORHEAD

Theatre

Watch on the

Rhine MARK LAWSON

Music

Anna Mieke;

Måneskin;

Nguyên Lê

BRIAN MORTON

Television

Happy Valley

LUCY LETHBRIDGE

BOOKS / PAGE 25

Christopher Bray

The Holocaust: An

Unfinished History DAN STONE

Morag MacInnes

You Are Not Alone

CARIAD LLOYD;

Spare

PRINCE HARRY

D.J. Taylor

We Danced On Our

Desks

PHILIP NORMAN

Robert Fox

Siena: The Life and

Afterlife of a

Medieval City

JANE STEVENSON

Sue Gaisford

For Thy Great Pain

Have Mercy on my

Little Pain

VICTORIA MACKENZIE