• Tuesday 6 April 2010

• The politics of identity in east London

  Andrew Brown: An ongoing row over the East London Mosque tells us much about the messy process of democracy Continue reading...
  Posted by Andrew Brown 12.00 BST

• Monday 5 April 2010

• The multicultural Christian right

  

  A Sunday service at a pentecostalist evangelical church in east London. Photograph: Linda Nylind

  Just in time for the election, we can watch the emergence of a fairly coherent rightwing bloc in British Christianity. It is nationalist, socially conservative, suspicious of markets, critical of Islam, authoritarian … but what distinguishes it from Ukip, or even the BNP, is that it has a large and powerful black membership. The figureheads of the movement are two retired Anglican bishops, Lord Carey, who used to be archbishop of Canterbury and still carries on as if he ought to be, and Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who resigned last year as bishop of Rochester. Continue reading...

  Posted by Andrew Brown 15.44 BST

• Tuesday 30 March 2010

• The pontiff is not so potent

  Andrew Brown: The shape of the world's oldest living bureaucracy, the Catholic church, is very much misunderstood

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 20.05 BST

• Wednesday 24 March 2010

• A thank you note on moderation

  Andrew Brown: Sometimes the only way to get something said is to bite your tongue. This is a thank you note for everyone who has done so

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 16.19 GMT

• Tuesday 23 March 2010

• Where was the real cover up?

  Andrew Brown: Culture is harder to change than rules and the real problem for the Vatican was not the printed rules but the tacit understandings

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 11.16 GMT

• Saturday 20 March 2010

• Pope Benedict's apology

  Andrew Brown: The pope's apology to the people and children of Ireland went about as far as a pope can. Will that be far enough?

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 14.17 GMT

• Friday 19 March 2010

• Celibacy and child abuse

  Andrew Brown: Many people blame celibacy for Catholic sexual abuse. But it's much more likely to have played a role in the cover-up

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 07.15 GMT

• Wednesday 17 March 2010

• A leader who wished to end the crisis would sack Cardinal Bernard Law

  

  Cardinal Bernard Law was given a job in Rome after accusations of sex abuse in Boston, where he is wanted by a grand jury. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

  Andrew Brown: Pope Benedict's decision to give a job in Rome to Law, who is wanted by a grand jury in Boston in connection with sex scandals, is indefensible

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 23.04 GMT

• Why Cardinal Brady must go

  Andrew Brown: Cardinal Brady played only a small part in a great injustice. But justice demands he pay the price

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 09.00 GMT

• Thursday 11 March 2010

• Catholic child abuse in proportion

  Andrew Brown: Many Catholic priests and religious have abused children in their care. But is the church's record worse than the world's?

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 10.30 GMT

• Wednesday 10 March 2010

• Who really wears a burka?

  Andrew Brown: Despite the furious debate around the question of banning burkas it's actually quite hard to find one in western Europe

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 14.38 GMT

• Tuesday 9 March 2010

• Is Britain broken?

  Andrew Brown: A debate between Polly Toynbee, David Willetts and Camila Batmanghelidjh produced more light than heat

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 12.41 GMT

• The Polish wafer threatens France

  Andrew Brown: The nuns who have traditionally made communion wafers are threatened by Polish, and, worse, American competition

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 09.00 GMT

• Sunday 7 March 2010

• Galileo in a spin

  Andrew Brown: If Galileo had trusted his instruments, he would have realised that Copernicus was wrong

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 14.08 GMT

• Friday 5 March 2010

• Is Britain broken?

  Andrew Brown: A debate on broken Britain should offer a lot to readers of Cif belief, and anyone else interested in the good society

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  Posted by Andrew Brown 17.29 GMT

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