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Latest Issue

A ‘frozen’ idea of the feminine

Francis’ exhortation is marred by a blindness to the role of women as partners in ecological conversion / BY TINA BEATTIE



The cult of the collar

Little will change while sentimental notions of nurture dominate Pope Francis’ idea of women / BY CATHERINE PEPINSTER



‘Let us not clip the wings of the Spirit’

For one of Francis’ biographers, his purpose is clear: to guide the Church on the path of inculturation, towards becoming a Church of the Amazon / BY AUSTEN IVEREIGH



Faith in the simple life

The lead bishop on the environment welcomes the Pope’s post-synodal exhortation as an urgent call to care for our common home / BY JOHN ARNOLD