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Intimate Affairs: Sexuality and Spirituality in Perspective, edited by Martyn Percy, Darton, Longman & Todd £ 8.95. What does it mean to be both sexual and spiritual? What does......
Newman, Chesterton , Knox... And Brownson
A new study of Catholic converts on both sides of the Atlantic gives far too much prominence to insignificant Americans, says Fr IAN KER Catholic Converts: British and American......
An Epic Of Decline
PIERS PAUL READ salutes an exceptional writer Shadows of Empire by Allan Massie, Sinclair-Stevenson £16.99 S HADOWS OF EMPIRE iS an elegant, intelligent novel that with the......
Roaming Cat Licks
HENRIETTA WRIOTHESLEY on church cats The Church Cat: Clerical Cats in Stories and Verse, edited by Mark Bryant, Hodder & Stoughton £6.99 T HE ANCIENT Egyptians worshipped their......
Jews And That Other Pius
JOE JENKINS is disturbed by a book that chronicles the shameful anti-semitism of the 19th century Church The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer, Picador £18.99 A......
The Authorised Biography Of A Modern Saint
The fascinating and revealing biography of a twentieth-century icon a world-renowned humanitarian who dedicated her life to caring for others Mother Teresa An Authorised......