COURTESY OF ASSOCIACÃO CULTURAL O MUNDO DE LYGIA CLARK; PHOTO BY MARCELO RIBEIRO ALVARES CORRÊA

Lygia Clark, ‘Planos em superfície modulada’, 1957, from her solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery 26

COLUMN

Liz Dodd ‘I was the same age as this protester the first time I was arrested at the Trident base’ / 5

CONTENTS 12 OCTOBER 2024 // VOL. 278 NO. 9573

FEATURES

4 / A life or death question A leading pollster warns that the public debate on assisted dying is framed by questions that contain dangerous assumptions / BY ANDREW HAWKINS

6 / An ecclesial trauma A new survey reveals the impact of the sex abuse crisis on the wider Catholic community in England and Wales / BY MARCUS POUND AND GREGORY RYAN

8 / Priests at the peripheries Shetland’s parish priest is following in the footsteps of a young Belgian missionary whose poignant story was celebrated last week / BY JOANNA MOORHEAD

10 / The Tablet Interview: Rupert Shortt The biographer of Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI says that Christianity is not collapsing but is changing into something very different / BY PETER STANFORD

EDUCATION

14 / Two peoples, one prophet A Turkish scholar has argued that history and tradition show that Judaism and

Islam can flourish together in peace and prosperity / BY BRUCE CLARK

16 / Off line and back on course Many secondary schools are curbing the use of mobile phones, finding it leads to better learning and a reconnection with peers / BY CARINA MURPHY

BOOKS / PAGE 22

A.N. Wilson The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place KATE SUMMERSCALE James Moran Intermezzo SALLY ROONEY Michael Glover Ash Keys: New Selected Poems MICHAEL LONGLEY

REGULARS Letters 18 The Living Spirit 19 Word from the Cloisters 21 Puzzles 21

NEWS

28 / The Church in the World / News briefing 29 / Pope names his cardinals for consistory in December

31 / View from the Synod 32 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing

33 / ‘Floodgates will open’ if law is passed

COVER: ALAMY/ASADYKOV

ARTS / PAGE 24 Theatre God on stage MARK LAWSON Radio The Brighton Bombing D.J. TAYLOR Dance Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland FÁTIMA NOLLÉN Exhibition Lygia Clark: The I and the You SUSAN GRAY

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