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April 1, 2022

Easter Issue – Ukraine's Calvary

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<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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