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In this week’s cover story Benedict Rogers describes an alarming event. He reports that the Chinese authorities recently attempted to disrupt a private gathering at a pilgrimage site in Europe involving Cardinal Zen and Hong Kong’s “Father of Democracy” Martin Lee. This illustrates, he says, why Hong Kong is “the new front line in the struggle for freedom against tyranny”. Elsewhere in this issue, Dan Hitchens asks if Catholic schools will resist radical new sex education programmes. Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith reveals what the Mexican Church can teach the Catholic world. Fr Raymond de Souza hails a priest defeating poverty. And Cristina Odone wonders why Italians are shelling out for four-poster beds – for their dogs. I hope you enjoy the issue.