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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

On this week's episode, we'll be looking at the divisions threatening to tear apart the Church of England and the Catholic Church,

asking whether the countryside is racist, and examining the downsides of living in a low-traffic neighbourhood.

First up, in his cover piece for the magazine, journalist Dan Hitchens asks whether Justin Welby and Pope Francis can keep their flocks in order. He joins me now alongside Telegraph

columnist Tim Stanley. Dan, to start with, you say in your piece that after 10 years in charge,

these men have failed to unify their

respective churches and indeed have overseen a period of considerable division. Where did it all go

wrong? Yeah, that's very much the puzzle the piece is trying to address because they began

within a few days of each other

both on a wave of press adulation and a lot of excitement, a lot of warm feeling from their

respective churches that here were two men who could unify the divisions, who could remind

Christians of what really mattered in their faith and help

them to avoid getting caught up in squabbles. And now there are squabbles as far as the eye can see.

And really that's the wrong word because the divisions that have emerged seem to be really

fundamental. So in the Church of England's case in February, the general synod, the

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