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At the time of Pope Benedict s September visit to the UK the Archbishop of Canterbury joked that he and the Pope had two things in common a fondness for cats and a keenness to recruit Anglican clergy Travelling in India this past week Dr Rowan Williams has had plenty of interesting things to sa