Guest blogger, Rachel Aston, reflects on the Cabinet reshuffle and General Synod decision to open the episcopate to women, noting some key differences between these two steps towards gender equality.
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Nick Spencer's reviews the memoir of the leading literary critic, John Carey.
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Ben Ryan looks at the appointment of Chris Patten to advise the Vatican on communications.
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Nick Spencer speaks to Peter Oborne for Third Way Magazine.
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Nick Spencer reviews Roger Scruton's sophisticated critique of "fashionable" atheism.
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Ben Ryan looks at the Catholic Church's synod on the family and what it might mean for Francis and the media
In BriefEdward Stourton, BBC journalist