Fr. Alban McCoy OFM Conv is a

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writer and

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. McCoy is the author of ''An Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics'' (2004) and ''An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism'' (2005, new ed. 2008). Since 1995, he has been the religious books editor of ''The Tablet''. From 2000 to 2013, he was the

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to the

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, and then served as Dean (and Acting Dean) of St Edmund's College until 2020. He is currently

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and Wine Steward of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and

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at the

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