Oliver Letwin

2 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Brendan Walsh |Liz Dodd |Oliver Letwin |Chris Patten

On 16 May, it was 185 years since our first issue was published, edited by Frederick Lucas, a former Quaker. To mark our birthday, we asked some of our friends and contributors to reflect on their hopes and fears for the next 15 years – in other words, between now and our bicentenary in 2040. Popes don’t change the Church as much as we sometimes imagine, but it feels as if the ground beneath our feet shifted in the Francis era.