PHOTO: BBC, CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU

Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts a socially distanced Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall 17

COLUMNS

Melanie McDonagh’s Notebook ‘Talking about Herbert McCabe, the Dominican theologian who died, annoyingly, in 2001’ / 10

Liz Dodd ‘The Pope puts the Church’s women into an amorphous, assumptive maleness. Again’ / 13

REGULARS Word from the Cloisters 14 Puzzles 14 Letters 15 The Living Spirit 16 From the Vineyard 30 Glimpses of Eden 30

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FEATURES

4 / Just giving

The author of a new book on philanthropy explains why the bond of mutual respect

between giver and receiver must be restored / BY PAUL VALLELY

6 / The Tablet Interview: Leroy Logan One of Britain’s highest-profile black officers discusses racism in the Metropolitan

Police and why the system was against him / BY MAGGIE FERGUSSON

8 / ‘I know there are no hopeless cases’ In the third in our series exploring the lives of women Religious, we hear the voice of Sr Simone Herrmann, an A&E doctor caring for the homeless / BY BLANCHE GIROUARD

12 / Resource rich, conflict riven As Islamist insurgents cause mayhem in Mozambique, Christian leaders insist the

cause is not religion but incompetent government / BY GERRY LYNCH

NEWS

23 / The Church in the World / News briefing 24 / Cardinal Sarah points the way back to Communion

26 / View from Rome 27 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing 28 / Priest resists CDF over women and gay marriage

COVER IMAGE: MARK HARRISON

ARTS / PAGE 17

Music An audience at the Wigmore; Last Night of the Proms ALEXANDRA COGHLAN Radio Songs of the Humpback Whale D.J. TAYLOR Exhibition The Stars are Bright JOANNA MOORHEAD Television The Singapore Grip LUCY LETHBRIDGE

BOOKS / PAGE 20

Liz Dodd No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless MAEVE MCCLENAGHAN Brian Morton English Pastoral: An Inheritance JAMES REBANKS Ian Thomson Selected Poetry ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Mark Hudson Summerwater SARAH MOSS

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