Leaders
The Synod needs you
Mass appeal should be for everyone
Vocations need not be consigned to the past
Diary – Adam Dant
Columns
Long Division – In an age of medical apartheid, it’s time for some acts of love , Constance Watson
Reading runes – Revelling in the theology of George Mackay Brown , Serenhedd James
Compulsory Church – How our medieval forebears managed Mass , Nicholas Orme
Following St Francis – We should swap vanity for peacemaking , Niall Gooch
The states vs Texas – Why Texas pro-lifers shouldn’t celebrate just yet , Ken Craycraft
Features
The tolerant George III – Against emancipation, but the mad King held the Catholics in high regard , Andrew Roberts
The Spy who came into the Church – The remarkable story of a war hero turned monk , Bernard Lewis
The thin end of the wedge – Our legal system rides roughshod over people’s faith and feelings , Justin Doherty
The passion of the producer – On the agonies of financing religious films , David Sower
Education Special Report
Shepherding the flock – Good chaplains set pupils up for life , Ferdie Rous
Inspiring a generation – The young of today and leaders of tomorrow , Stefan Kaminski
Showing up wokeness – How Dante leads the way , Diego Murillo
Minding our language – On ending chronological snobbery , Roy Peachey
Learning difficulties and lockdown – 18 months of hampered learning , Elisa Segrave
Arts & Books
Climate Catastrophe and Faith: How changes in Climate Drive Religous Upheavals by Philip Jenkins , reviewed by John Cornwell
Holl and Blind Twighlight by John Martin Robinson , reviewed by Michael Hodges
Matrix by Lauren Groff , reviewed by Arabella Byrne
Oh! William by Elizabeth Strout , reviewed by Cressida Conolly
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon:the Diaries Volume 2, 1938 -1943 by Chips Channon, edited by Simon Heffer, reviewed by Nicky Haslam
Silverview by John Le Carré , reviewed by Charles Cumming
Interview: Will Todd – The brilliant composer whose passion for the sacred informs his life and work, Melanie McDonagh
Saints and saleability – Exploring the world of Catholic Tat , Anthony Cazalet
Dragging us out of despair – On the consolation of Robert Southwell’s poetry , Archie Hill
Liszt and God – Not quite a religious composer , Jonathan Gaisman
Life & Soul
October Diary – Anna Somers Cocks
Tessa’s Feasts – Two fishies on dishies for St Andrew , Tessa Balfour
The Pointed Arch – The remarkable restoration of St Birinus , Michael Hodges
Lost in translation – Mass-goers may struggle with the new approved lectionary, Richard J Ounsworth
The Garden – Closing the loop between truth and beauty in Autumn , Charlie Hart
The truth about the Tridentine Mass – Father Anonymous
Travel & Pilgrimage
Scotland’s Sacred Isle – Paying homage to a holy past , William Cash
On Pilgrimage with Rosemary Hill