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His Ugliness The Pope

Benedict XV is the forgotten pope of the century: plain and short-tempered, his reign was overshadowed by war. But we should not underestimate him, says Brian Brindley The......

Love, Liturgy... And Putting Out The Garbage

Monastic life is as much about practicalities as high-flown spirituality. Deborah Jones on two very different glimpses of the cloister The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris, Lion......

Evening Hymn

T HE DUST-JACKET Of Julian Fane's latest book tells us that his first, Morning, was published 43 years ago, and now Evening completes a prolific career. The novel is about an......

New Paperbacks

Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless by Andrew Boyd, Lion £7.99. The story of the "Battling Baroness", a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords who became one of the world's......