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Marie Daouda ‘Nahel was training to be an electrician, trying his best to get out of the banlieue’ /9

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FEATURES

4 / Francis finds his striker The new head of the doctrine office is someone in the Pope’s image, willing to take

risks and preferring dialogue over condemnation / BY CHRISTOPHER LAMB

6 / The spirit of St John’s The seminary built in the Surrey Hills to train priests for the diocese of Southwark

that closed in 2021 will come to a “good end” on Thursday / BY ELENA CURTI

8 / Open yourself up to beauty The degradation of the environment is usually called progress but Dorothy Day

called it a form of poverty / BY KATE HENNESSY

10 / The Tablet Interview: Clare Dixon The long-serving development worker says that Cafod is driven by the energy

of the communities it works beside / BY PETER STANFORD

12 / The supreme dilemma President Biden should remember that any curbs on the power of the US Supreme

Court could affect those on the left as well as the right / BY MICHAEL MCGOUGH

14 / Dirty bombs

Ukraine has held the moral high ground, but the US offer of ammunition widely

regarded as illegal and unjust raises deep concerns / BY TOBIAS WINRIGHT

REGULARS Word from the Cloisters 15 Puzzles 15 Letters 16 The Living Spirit 17

NEWS

24 / The Church in the World / News briefing 25 / Women to join as voting members in Synod first

27 / View from Rome 28 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing 29 / Chapel contents at risk after fire at disused school

COVER: ALAMY/ALLSTAR PICTURE LIBRARY

ARTS / PAGE 18 Theatre The Sound of Music MARK LAWSON Radio The NHS at 75 D.J. TAYLOR Cinema The Damned Don’t Cry ISABELLE GREY Television Body on the Beach LUCY LETHBRIDGE

BOOKS / PAGE 21

Sue Gaisford Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival DANIEL FINKELSTEIN Melanie McDonagh Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit ANTONIA FRASER Markie RobsonScott Speed reads on motherhood Rachel Kelly Struggling With God: Mental Health & Christian Spirituality CHRISTOPHER C.H. COOK, ISABELLE HAMLEY & JOHN SWINTON George Cochrane Be Mine RICHARD FORD

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