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October 13, 2021

Catholic Herald October Issue

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<strong>Leaders</strong> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-synod-needs-you/">The Synod needs you</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/mass-appeal-should-be-for-everyone/">Mass appeal should be for everyone</a> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/vocations-need-not-be-consigned-to-the-past/">Vocations need not be consigned to the past</a> <strong>Diary </strong>– <em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/diary-art-without-god-on-the-eus-art-collection/">Adam Dant</a></em> <strong>Columns</strong> Long Division<strong> –&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/ch/long-division">In an age of medical apartheid, it’s time for some acts of love</a>, <em>Constance Watson</em> Reading runes –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/reading-the-runes/">Revelling in the theology of George Mackay Brown</a>, <em>Serenhedd James</em> Compulsory Church –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/when-everyone-went-to-church-but-not-everyone-did/">How our medieval forebears managed Mass</a>, <em>Nicholas Orme</em> Following St Francis –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/following-st-francis/">We should swap vanity for peacemaking</a>, <em>Niall Gooch</em> The states vs Texas – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/ch/the-texas-heartbeat-bill-and-abortion-politics-in-the-u-s">Why Texas pro-lifers shouldn’t celebrate just yet</a>, <em>Ken Craycraft</em> <strong>Features</strong> The tolerant George III – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-tolerance-of-george-iii/">Against emancipation, but the mad King held the Catholics in high regard</a>, <em>Andrew Roberts</em> The Spy who came into the Church –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-spy-who-became-a-monk/">The remarkable story of a war hero turned monk</a>, <em>Bernard Lewis</em> The thin end of the wedge – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-thin-end-of-the-wedge/">Our legal system rides roughshod over people’s faith and feelings</a>, <em>Justin Doherty</em> The passion of the producer <strong>–&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/wanted-backers-for-a-religious-thriller/">On the agonies of financing religious films</a>, <em>David Sower</em> <strong>Education Special Report</strong> Shepherding the flock –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/shepherding-the-flock/">Good chaplains set pupils up for life</a>, <em>Ferdie Rous</em> Inspiring a generation –&nbsp;<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/todays-youth-%e2%80%a8tomorrows-leaders/">The young of today and leaders of tomorrow</a>, <em>Stefan Kaminski</em> Showing up wokeness <strong>– </strong><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/how-dante-shows-up-wokeness/">How Dante leads the way</a>, <em>Diego Murillo</em> Minding our language – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/minding-our-language/">On ending chronological snobbery</a>, <em>Roy Peachey</em> Learning difficulties and lockdown<strong> </strong>– <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/learning-difficulties-and-lockdowns/">18 months of hampered learning</a>, <em>Elisa Segrave</em> <strong>Arts & Books</strong> <em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/unrelentingly-ominous-but-essential/">Climate Catastrophe and Faith: How changes in Climate Drive Religous Upheavals</a></em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/unrelentingly-ominous-but-essential/"><em> </em>by Philip Jenkins</a>, reviewed by <em>John Cornwell</em> <em>Holl</em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/building-on-past-triumphs/"><em>and Blind Twighlight</em> by John Martin Robinson</a>, reviewed by <em>Michael Hodges</em> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/a-readable-yarn-but-none-too-credible/"><em>Matrix</em> by Lauren Groff</a>, <em>reviewed by Arabella Byrne</em> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/william-it-was-really-something/"><em>Oh! William</em> by Elizabeth Strout</a>, reviewed by <em>Cressida Conolly</em> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-son-in-law-also-rises/"><em>Henry ‘Chips’ Channon:the Diaries Volume 2, 1938 -1943</em> by Chips Channon, edited by<em> </em>Simon Heffer</a><em>,</em> reviewed by <em>Nicky Haslam</em> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/stilted-but-endearing/"><em>Silverview</em> by John Le Carré</a>, reviewed by <em>Charles Cumming</em> Interview: Will Todd – The brilliant composer whose passion for the sacred informs his life and work, <em>Melanie McDonagh</em> Saints and saleability – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/saints-and-saleability/">Exploring the world of Catholic Tat</a><strong>, </strong><em>Anthony Cazalet</em> Dragging us out of despair – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/strengthening-those-in-despair/">On the consolation of Robert Southwell’s poetry</a>, <em>Archie Hill</em> Liszt and God – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/ever-so-slightly-off-key/">Not quite a religious composer</a>, <em>Jonathan Gaisman</em> <strong>Life & Soul</strong> October Diary<strong> –&nbsp;</strong><em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/october-diary-reflecting-on-the-plight-of-refugees/">Anna Somers Cocks</a></em> Tessa’s Feasts – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/tessas-feasts-herring-and-monkfish-for-st-andrew/">Two fishies on dishies for St Andrew</a>, <em>Tessa Balfour</em> The Pointed Arch – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-remarkable-restoration-of-st-birinus-dorchester-upon-thames/">The remarkable restoration of St Birinus</a>, <em>Michael Hodges</em> Lost in translation – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/ch/on-biblical-translations-in-the-lectionary">Mass-goers may struggle with the new approved lectionary,</a> <em>Richard J Ounsworth</em> The Garden – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/mist-and-moments-of-delight/">Closing the loop between truth and beauty in Autumn</a>, <em>Charlie Hart</em> <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/are-papal-priorities-right/">The truth about the Tridentine Mass</a> – <em>Father Anonymous</em> <strong>Travel & Pilgrimage</strong> Scotland’s Sacred Isle – <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/scotlands-spiritual-isle/">Paying homage to a holy past</a>, <em>William Cash</em> On Pilgrimage<strong> </strong>with <em><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/on-pilgrimage-with-rosemary-hill/">Rosemary Hill</a></em>
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