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1 Leaders 9 Diary William Cash 98 Letters 115 Crossword

News and Comment 10 UK & Ireland 12 Vatican 15 Americas 16 News Commentary Assisted suicide

Features

18 Persecuted Church Calling on leaders to help end Christian suffering John Pontifex 22 ‘Everyone’s unhappy’ What now after the

Synod on Synodality? John Allen 24 Assisted suicide A warning from palliative-

care professor Ilora Finlay Melanie McDonagh 26 Eye of the storm Surveying the damage in the aftermath of Helene Michael Martin OFM Conv 27 Loyal to the end Reflecting on the long life of Ethel Kennedy Jamie MacGuire 28 Keeping it real Catechists need clearer

Eucharistic teaching Camilla Harrison 30 Miracles in Malaya The cause of resistance heroine Sybil Kathigasu James Roberts

SPECIAL FEATURE WARWICK STREET 30 0 36 Festival Diary Celebrating three centuries of Catholic worship in the heart of London Serenhedd James 38 A long history Warwick Street’s ongoing ministry down the years Keith Newton 39 From the Archives The visit of Cardinal Griffin in December 1954 40 Pointed Arch A noble survivor of riots, bombs and liturgists Michael Hodges 42 Anglican patrimony The role played by the

Ordinariates in developing greater Catholic unity Michael Nazir-Ali

Columns

45 Gavin Ashenden Ecumenical déjà vu 46 Ken Craycraft Political idolatry in the US 47 Niall Gooch Practical ethics 48 Oleńka Hamilton Pulling ourselves together 49 Flora Watkins In the eye of the beholder

US Schools, Colleges and Universities Guide 53 Introduction 54 Finding faith on campus The value of Catholic study

Lesley Fernández-Armesto 56 Harrison Butker The NFL star aims true

Tom Colsy 60 Top 25 Universities and Colleges 70 A-Z of Colleges 82 Top 25 Secondary Schools

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