March Issue – A Fighting Order

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Leaders

The Order of Malta has the right to control its affairs

Diary – Fr Mark Vickers

Columns

Serenhedd James – Are you self-serving?

Niall Gooch – Finding the key to an interior life

Legal notebook – The problem with abortion ‘Pills by Post’, Sir Stephen Stewart

Gertrude Clarke – Go vegan for Lent

Ken Craycraft – Reading through the Lenten desert

Olenka Hamilton – Keeping the past alive

Features

Recusants revisited – The fortunes of the faith mirror those of Catholic houses, Jeremy Musson

Challenges to unity – On women priests and bishops, Michael Nazir-Ali

Ending the impasse – The dispute between the Order of Malta and the Vatican has been halted, Simon Caldwell

Marshall is the message – The spiritual vision of Marshall McLuhan, Nick Ripatrazone

Putin’s plan – The Russian president’s imperial ambitions, Mark Jenkins

Pope and circumstance – Bringing Elgar to the Vatican, Lord German

Arts & Books

AN WIlson reviews Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time, by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Robert Gray – In the Shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, by Margaret Willes

David Abulafia reviews For the Freedom of Zion, by Guy MacLean Rogers

John McEwen reviews Birds and Us, by Tim Birkhead

Music – Too much to Handel, Michael White

Size does matter – The Stations of the Cross need to be seen at scale, Patrick Van der Vorst

Body and Blood – Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, Lucien de Guise

Rocks of ages – The meaning of Stonehenge, Rosemary Hill

Life & Soul

Diary – Sarah Sands

Nick Thomas – Good vibrations from Pope Francis

The Garden – Paean to polygamy, Charlie Hart

Robert Verrill – On Catholic contributions to science

Pointed Arch – The appeal of Norfolk’s Catholic churches, Michael Hodges

Richard J Ounsworth – From temptation to Transfiguration

Travel & Pilgrimage

Sanctuary for the Holy Souls – Seeking solace at Notre-Dame de Montligeon, Ferdie Rous

On Pilgrimage with Sir Bill Cash