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Catholic Leanings Of A Clerical Elite
John Coventry SJ THIS is a fascinating and most readable book, charting the rise (and largely fall) of a piece of English social and ecclesiastical history, and giving a......
A Duty That We Try To Overlook
Peter Stanford FORGIVENESS is one of those words we bandy around without ever really thinking what it means. It slips easily off our lips, but rarely penetrates our hearts. At......
Sarah Sackville-west Trapped By His Obsession With The...
and essentially modern Pat, a downto-earth receptionist at the Institute where he works, young George Loftus, shy and underconfident, is sent to an historic house in the North......
Graham Jenkins
IT has taken many centuries for Christians to openly acknowledge that Jesus was a Jew, such was the climate of anti-Judaism. Perhaps the rejection by Marcion (85-160) played a......
Saintly Legends That Are Themselves Legends
Sir John Dewhurst THIS is a curious book which falls naturally into two parts. In the first the myths and legends, which have surrounded St Patrick since his death, are......
Help Your Child Grow Up With The Liturgy Of The Church
I have recently had the opportunity to examine a set of six religious activity books (March 1989: St Paul Publications, Slough SL3 6BT, 75p each). The books produced in America......
Best Years Of A Brave Short Life
Virginia Barton THIS is a biography of Clive Jermain. He as only 22 when he died of cancer in 1988 but had already won critical acclaim for a TV play, The Best Years of Your......
At Sea On The West Bank
Ian McDougall YORAM Binur, a young Jewish journalist with a fluent knowledge of Arabic, posed as a Palestinian Arab among the Jews and Arabs in Israel, as well as in Gaza and......