Richard Ingrams’s Week: We could learn a thing or two from the

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This week a French judge imposed a massive £545,000 fine on the organisation and gave its leader a two-year suspended sentence for using fraudulent medical claims in order to attract young recruits. Sing from the same hymn sheet It is hard to make out exactly what the Pope has in mind by offering so-called traditionalist Anglicans the chance to defect en bloc to the Catholic church. The Pope and his advisers don't seem to be aware that the Church of England long ago did away with its liturgy, dispensing with its Book of Common Prayer and replacing it with drab contemporary rubrics and encouraging vicars to introduce their own – usually banal – prayers into the services whenever they felt the urge.