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...Canterbury is after all the nation's spiritual leader, the presider over great state celebrations. He ranks second to the royal family in leaving such occasions - he succeeds the sovereign, but precedes the Prime Minister. Moreover, he not only heads the Church of England, but also leads the worldwide Anglican Communion of some 70 million Anglicans and Episcopalians in 164 countries...
...horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi before he became an Anglican at age 20. Not that the Papist allegations bothered too many. Times have changed since Henry VIII severed ties with Rome in 1534. The Queen this month overturned five centuries of history by inviting Britain's Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to preach at Sandringham's parish church...
...that he was too willing to discuss his candidacy during a bbc interview. Still, the race has many months to run before Carey leaves the job in October. And appointing Nazir-Ali as the 104th Primate of All England might be tempting as an inclusive gesture to the Anglican Communion - and, since he is an Islam expert, a pragmatic one. "This may indeed influence the choice," says Austin. "But the bishop is worthy of the job anyway." Nevertheless, by the end of week, Nazir-Ali had dropped from first to third favorite, with 4-1 odds, according to bookmakers William...
Whoever gets the job knows he will have a hard task in keeping the unwieldy Anglican Communion afloat and the domestic church from falling further into irrelevance. Carey is revered in the Third World, where there are genuine areas of Anglican growth. But it's at home, with a church that Carey once likened to an "elderly lady, muttering ancient platitudes through toothless gums," that the problems may seem darkest. There are pockets of hope. Ordinations have risen by 50% in the last five years - with the help of women - black churches are vibrant, and evangelical crusades like the Alpha...
...increase? One word: community. "The church is still one of the main ways for people to be with each other and with God," says Canon Jim Rosenthal of the Anglican Communion. In good times, people may not feel a need for the security that faith can provide. But the attacks shook the status quo, says Henry Paasonen, senior pastor of the Berlin International Church, prompting "consciousness of the preciousness of life and how disaster can terminate that so suddenly...