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Pope John's Divinely Inspired Council Of 25 Years Ago
Page 12 from 9th October 1987TWENTY-five years ago this coming Sunday, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council. Who could have predicted on October 11, 1962, how many......
In A Few Words
Page 4 from 28th December 1951Whitaker's Again IT is a pleasant annual task to welcome the new edition of the indispensable Whitaker's—not that 1 go so far as the gentleman I......
We Should Not Fear Things That Go Bump In The Night
Page 10 from 5th May 2006Christopher Howse asks whether Catholics are permitted to believe in the existence of ghosts A ( u fter the Second Vatican Council 1962-65), the......
Mushroom Cloud Of Long, Long Ago
Page 3 from 26th November 1976I HAD the good fortune to be invited to the opening day of the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition — Pompeii AD 79 — and it turned out to be a......
Cinema
Page 9 from 3rd April 1936By Celluloid NEW FILMS " Desire " The Plaza Ernst Lubitsch, the Puck amongst producers, has proved himself another Pommer in his ability to......
Two Masters Of The Lost Art Of Friendship
Page 10 from 31st October 2008Charlie Hegarty Notebook I t was a dark and stormy night. On second thoughts I will leave that opening to Bulwer Lytton who coined it, and simply......
Idling Away As The Sun Never Set
Page 6 from 28th August 1987Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies in the Raj, by Marian Fowler (Viking, £12.95). ALTHOUGH so much has been written about it, British India......