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Leader: Deacons, not doormats THE PRIESTHOOD of all believers has proved a difficult concept for the Church. Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: A real faith leads deep into the desert Across the desert and deep in the mountains of Yemen is the industrial city of Ta’izz. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: The whole society needs to join in The uncle of a friend of mine has lived in Norris Green all his life. Subscriber only

How to find what makes for peace ‘We face urban diabetes, where parts of the body are starved’ Subscriber only	Simon Parke: Viewing my real space THERE IS a new television series on ITV: Britain’s Favourite View Subscriber only	Responding to a sexualised society Prostitution and pornography are big businesses. But the champions of free trade are not altogether convinced that they are good businesses. Subscriber only

What Diana’s cult tells the Church ‘It revealed a religious longing for ordinary kindness to the victimised’ Subscriber only	100 Years Ago: Deceased Wife’s Sister Act AT LAST, after half-a-century of fruitless effort, the well-to-do have succeeded in their object. Subscriber only	Why did this seem like a great moral safeguard? ‘This injunction, its defenders believed, was all that stood in the way of incestuous anarchy’ Subscriber only

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