30 December 2014, The Tablet

Beckham beats cardinal


 
Providing moral leadership in Britain is hard work. And a poll for The Sunday Times of 2,000 people does not make particularly comfortable reading for male church leaders. Topping the list of responses with 34 per cent of the replies was the Queen, followed by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with 30 per cent. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, came in fourth place with 15 per cent, while Cardinal Vincent Nichols was in fifteenth place with 5 per cent, less than both Dame Judi Dench a
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