February 11, 2026

Easter Issue – Ukraine's Calvary

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Leaders

Pray for peace in Ukraine

How one book changed perceptions of the Reformation in England

Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter

Features
Diary – Jonathan Bate

John Goddard – The tale of his conversionSimon Caldwell

Thinking with Scruton – The philosopher’s Christian understanding of the worldKarl Gustel Wärnberg

The Stripping of the Altars – Reflecting on a groundbreaking work 30 years onEamon Duffy

‘A radical expression of the faith’ – Five hundred and one years of the JesuitsMelanie McDonagh

The Records Office – An extract from a new story by Simon Caldwell

Ukraine Supplement

The Humanitarian Front – Reporting from the Ukrainian borderWilliam Cash

The Great and the Good – Poland is welcoming millions of refugees from the warMarcin Wikło

A Seminary at War – On the ordinands fulfilling their vocations amid the turmoil of warSerenhedd James

Brothers in Alms – How the Redemptorists are caring for refugees in UkraineDavid Godfrey

A Shared Vision – Church and state, à la RusseMark Jenkins

The Virgin Praying… for Ukraine – How Ukraine’s apparition of the Virgin speaks to those afflicted by war, John Cornwell

Columns

Serenhedd James – Friends Reunited

Ken Craycraft – Learning how to be forgiven

Olenka Hamilton – Three is the magic number (of children)

Constance Watson – Fearing is believing

Niall Gooch – Rock of ages

Arts & Books

Fr Christopher Colven reviews Mary, Founder of Christianity, by Chris Maunder

John Stubbs reviews Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell

Gertrude Clarke reviews Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women BroughtPhilosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Clare Wiseman

Cressida Connolly reviews French Braid, by Anne Taylor

Sophia Waugh reviews Elizabeth Finch, by Julian Barnes

Film – Fighting for faith, a review of Father Stu, Nick Ripatrazone

Music – Mother’s boy: Jakub Józef OrlińskiMichael White

Life & Soul

Ukrainian Diary – William Cash

Pointed Arch – The copious output of Joseph Hansom, Michael Hodges

Richard J Ounsworth – A complete death after the Resurrection

Pain and Suffering – Learning to live with a dilemma, Mark Dowd

Science – Shining a light on faithRobert Verrill OP

The Garden – Amid budding flowers, we prepare for the joy of EasterCharlie Hart

Papal Pets – The Vatican once hosted a menagerie of exotic animalsAnthony Cazalet

Travel & Pilgrimage

Still waiting for their miracle – How Iraqi Christians are faring a year on from Pope Francis’s historic visitJohn Cookson

On Pilgrimage Colm Tóibín

<strong>Leaders</strong> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bb3408a630&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pray for peace in Ukraine</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c3098eca1b&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How one book changed perceptions of the Reformation in England</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=9c989e821e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter</a> <strong>Features</strong><br><strong>Diary</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=118bf4c7d9&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Jonathan Bate</em></a> <strong>John Goddard</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=6dcca8d657&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The tale of his conversion</a>,&nbsp;<em>Simon Caldwell</em> <strong>Thinking with Scruton</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=f0a4361047&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The philosopher’s Christian understanding of the world</a>,&nbsp;<em>Karl Gustel Wärnberg</em> <strong>The Stripping of</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>the Altars</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c64619b8d1&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reflecting on a groundbreaking work 30 years on</a>,&nbsp;<em>Eamon Duffy</em> <strong>‘A radical expression</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>of the faith’ –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=abe70f5c18&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Five hundred and one years of the Jesuits</a>,&nbsp;<em>Melanie McDonagh</em> <strong>The Records Office</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=3fe445b95d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An extract from a new story</a> by <em>Simon Caldwell</em> <strong>Ukraine Supplement</strong> <strong>The Humanitarian Front</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=08d6989ab8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting from the Ukrainian border</a>,&nbsp;<em>William Cash</em> <strong>The Great and the Good</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=005ffb75c8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poland is welcoming millions of refugees from the war</a>,&nbsp;<em>Marcin Wikło</em> <strong>A Seminary at War</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=4da1874227&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On the ordinands fulfilling their vocations amid the turmoil of war</a>,&nbsp;<em>Serenhedd James</em> <strong>Brothers in Alms</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=abb14fbf1e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How the Redemptorists are caring for refugees in Ukraine</a>,&nbsp;<em>David Godfrey</em> <strong>A Shared Vision</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=0cd2d29348&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Church and state, à la Russe</a>,&nbsp;<em>Mark Jenkins</em> <strong>The Virgin Praying… for Ukraine</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=ff7580bf8e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Ukraine’s apparition of the Virgin speaks to those afflicted by war</a>, John Cornwell <strong>Columns</strong> <strong>Serenhedd James</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=cdba1e36f8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Friends Reunited</a> <strong>Ken Craycraft</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=4747ed24b6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learning how to be forgiven</a> <strong>Olenka Hamilton</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=2b2aa75fdd&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Three is the magic number (of children)</a> <strong>Constance Watson</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c18d02cee9&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fearing is believing</a> <strong>Niall Gooch</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=230088a15f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rock of ages</a> <strong>Arts & Books</strong> <strong>F</strong><strong>r Christopher Colven</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=04b529aa9f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Mary, Founder of</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em>Christianity</em></a>, by Chris Maunder <strong>John Stubbs</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=fdf1b76207&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a>, by Katherine Rundell <strong>Gertrude Clarke</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b4bc9aa50f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Metaphysical Animals:</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em>How Four Women Brought</em><em>Philosophy Back to Life</em></a>, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Clare Wiseman <strong>Cressida Connolly</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=87b3732db6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>French Braid</em></a>, by Anne Taylor <strong>Sophia Waugh</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b088eadf98&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Elizabeth Finch</em></a>, by Julian Barnes <strong>Film</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=46541cc1d6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fighting for faith, a review of&nbsp;</a><em><a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bf24b339d6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Father Stu</a>, Nick Ripatrazone</em> <strong>Music</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=a6da5ac8fb&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mother’s boy: Jakub Józef Orliński</a>, <em>Michael White</em> <strong>Life & Soul</strong> <strong>Ukrainian Diary</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=5b63d2cd9a&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Cash</a> <strong>Pointed Arch</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=8aa1c51b33&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The copious output of Joseph Hansom</a>, Michael Hodges <strong>Richard J Ounsworth</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=39749f2287&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A complete death after the Resurrection</a> <strong>Pain and Suffering</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b600bc504e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learning to live with a dilemma</a>, Mark Dowd <strong>Science</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bdc87dbb38&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shining a light on faith</a>,&nbsp;<em>Robert Verrill OP</em> <strong>The Garden</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=60fd50bd83&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amid budding flowers, we prepare for the joy of&nbsp;Easter</a>,&nbsp;<em>Charlie Hart</em> <strong>Papal Pets</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=3d05ead60d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Vatican once hosted a menagerie of exotic animals</a>, <em>Anthony Cazalet</em> <strong>Travel & Pilgrimage</strong> <strong>Still waiting for</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>their miracle –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=a0a943db5b&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Iraqi Christians are faring a year on from Pope Francis’s historic visit</a>,&nbsp;<em>John Cookson</em> <strong>On Pilgrimage</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=8ff3d3d18d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colm Tóibín</a>

Leaders

Pray for peace in Ukraine

How one book changed perceptions of the Reformation in England

Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter

Features
Diary – Jonathan Bate

John Goddard – The tale of his conversionSimon Caldwell

Thinking with Scruton – The philosopher’s Christian understanding of the worldKarl Gustel Wärnberg

The Stripping of the Altars – Reflecting on a groundbreaking work 30 years onEamon Duffy

‘A radical expression of the faith’ – Five hundred and one years of the JesuitsMelanie McDonagh

The Records Office – An extract from a new story by Simon Caldwell

Ukraine Supplement

The Humanitarian Front – Reporting from the Ukrainian borderWilliam Cash

The Great and the Good – Poland is welcoming millions of refugees from the warMarcin Wikło

A Seminary at War – On the ordinands fulfilling their vocations amid the turmoil of warSerenhedd James

Brothers in Alms – How the Redemptorists are caring for refugees in UkraineDavid Godfrey

A Shared Vision – Church and state, à la RusseMark Jenkins

The Virgin Praying… for Ukraine – How Ukraine’s apparition of the Virgin speaks to those afflicted by war, John Cornwell

Columns

Serenhedd James – Friends Reunited

Ken Craycraft – Learning how to be forgiven

Olenka Hamilton – Three is the magic number (of children)

Constance Watson – Fearing is believing

Niall Gooch – Rock of ages

Arts & Books

Fr Christopher Colven reviews Mary, Founder of Christianity, by Chris Maunder

John Stubbs reviews Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell

Gertrude Clarke reviews Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women BroughtPhilosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Clare Wiseman

Cressida Connolly reviews French Braid, by Anne Taylor

Sophia Waugh reviews Elizabeth Finch, by Julian Barnes

Film – Fighting for faith, a review of Father Stu, Nick Ripatrazone

Music – Mother’s boy: Jakub Józef OrlińskiMichael White

Life & Soul

Ukrainian Diary – William Cash

Pointed Arch – The copious output of Joseph Hansom, Michael Hodges

Richard J Ounsworth – A complete death after the Resurrection

Pain and Suffering – Learning to live with a dilemma, Mark Dowd

Science – Shining a light on faithRobert Verrill OP

The Garden – Amid budding flowers, we prepare for the joy of EasterCharlie Hart

Papal Pets – The Vatican once hosted a menagerie of exotic animalsAnthony Cazalet

Travel & Pilgrimage

Still waiting for their miracle – How Iraqi Christians are faring a year on from Pope Francis’s historic visitJohn Cookson

On Pilgrimage Colm Tóibín

<strong>Leaders</strong> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bb3408a630&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pray for peace in Ukraine</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c3098eca1b&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How one book changed perceptions of the Reformation in England</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=9c989e821e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter</a> <strong>Features</strong><br><strong>Diary</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=118bf4c7d9&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Jonathan Bate</em></a> <strong>John Goddard</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=6dcca8d657&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The tale of his conversion</a>,&nbsp;<em>Simon Caldwell</em> <strong>Thinking with Scruton</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=f0a4361047&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The philosopher’s Christian understanding of the world</a>,&nbsp;<em>Karl Gustel Wärnberg</em> <strong>The Stripping of</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>the Altars</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c64619b8d1&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reflecting on a groundbreaking work 30 years on</a>,&nbsp;<em>Eamon Duffy</em> <strong>‘A radical expression</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>of the faith’ –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=abe70f5c18&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Five hundred and one years of the Jesuits</a>,&nbsp;<em>Melanie McDonagh</em> <strong>The Records Office</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=3fe445b95d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An extract from a new story</a> by <em>Simon Caldwell</em> <strong>Ukraine Supplement</strong> <strong>The Humanitarian Front</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=08d6989ab8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reporting from the Ukrainian border</a>,&nbsp;<em>William Cash</em> <strong>The Great and the Good</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=005ffb75c8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poland is welcoming millions of refugees from the war</a>,&nbsp;<em>Marcin Wikło</em> <strong>A Seminary at War</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=4da1874227&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On the ordinands fulfilling their vocations amid the turmoil of war</a>,&nbsp;<em>Serenhedd James</em> <strong>Brothers in Alms</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=abb14fbf1e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How the Redemptorists are caring for refugees in Ukraine</a>,&nbsp;<em>David Godfrey</em> <strong>A Shared Vision</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=0cd2d29348&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Church and state, à la Russe</a>,&nbsp;<em>Mark Jenkins</em> <strong>The Virgin Praying… for Ukraine</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=ff7580bf8e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Ukraine’s apparition of the Virgin speaks to those afflicted by war</a>, John Cornwell <strong>Columns</strong> <strong>Serenhedd James</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=cdba1e36f8&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Friends Reunited</a> <strong>Ken Craycraft</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=4747ed24b6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learning how to be forgiven</a> <strong>Olenka Hamilton</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=2b2aa75fdd&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Three is the magic number (of children)</a> <strong>Constance Watson</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=c18d02cee9&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fearing is believing</a> <strong>Niall Gooch</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=230088a15f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rock of ages</a> <strong>Arts & Books</strong> <strong>F</strong><strong>r Christopher Colven</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=04b529aa9f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Mary, Founder of</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em>Christianity</em></a>, by Chris Maunder <strong>John Stubbs</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=fdf1b76207&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne</a>, by Katherine Rundell <strong>Gertrude Clarke</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b4bc9aa50f&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Metaphysical Animals:</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em>How Four Women Brought</em><em>Philosophy Back to Life</em></a>, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Clare Wiseman <strong>Cressida Connolly</strong>&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=87b3732db6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>French Braid</em></a>, by Anne Taylor <strong>Sophia Waugh</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>reviews&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b088eadf98&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Elizabeth Finch</em></a>, by Julian Barnes <strong>Film</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=46541cc1d6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fighting for faith, a review of&nbsp;</a><em><a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bf24b339d6&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Father Stu</a>, Nick Ripatrazone</em> <strong>Music</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=a6da5ac8fb&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mother’s boy: Jakub Józef Orliński</a>, <em>Michael White</em> <strong>Life & Soul</strong> <strong>Ukrainian Diary</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=5b63d2cd9a&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Cash</a> <strong>Pointed Arch</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=8aa1c51b33&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The copious output of Joseph Hansom</a>, Michael Hodges <strong>Richard J Ounsworth</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=39749f2287&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A complete death after the Resurrection</a> <strong>Pain and Suffering</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=b600bc504e&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learning to live with a dilemma</a>, Mark Dowd <strong>Science</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=bdc87dbb38&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shining a light on faith</a>,&nbsp;<em>Robert Verrill OP</em> <strong>The Garden</strong>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=60fd50bd83&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amid budding flowers, we prepare for the joy of&nbsp;Easter</a>,&nbsp;<em>Charlie Hart</em> <strong>Papal Pets</strong> – <a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=3d05ead60d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Vatican once hosted a menagerie of exotic animals</a>, <em>Anthony Cazalet</em> <strong>Travel & Pilgrimage</strong> <strong>Still waiting for</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>their miracle –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=a0a943db5b&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Iraqi Christians are faring a year on from Pope Francis’s historic visit</a>,&nbsp;<em>John Cookson</em> <strong>On Pilgrimage</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f22213bc06963a5e8df3944&id=8ff3d3d18d&e=22f72e3738" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colm Tóibín</a>

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