Rose Macaulay’s Towers of Trebizond (1956) is generally regarded as her masterpiece, and almost certainly it is the most commonly read of her novels today. It is also a sort of running tribute to Anglo-Catholicism, saturated with asides, often hilarious, about Anglo-Catholics and their peculiar habits and attitudes, and at the same time quietly appreciativeContinue reading “Revisiting Anglican Classics 10: Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond”
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Encountering Pope Francis
As preparations are under way in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, inevitably I’ve been thinking over my impressions of him. I met him a handful of times, mostly in the company of many others, a couple of times as part of a small group. This isn’t basis enough to say very muchContinue reading “Encountering Pope Francis”
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