...you might enjoy this feature, just published in the new on-line version of an American magazine, Crisis...
Another kind donation for World Youth Day (following my cycle ride) arrived today, from an elderly lady of 88 in Cornwall...saying she'd love to meet the Holy Father, but is too old to travel and couldn't afford Australia anyway, but here is something for the young people...things like this make one gulp. I am saving up some of these letters to show to some of the young people when I speak at one of their meetings in a couple of months' time.
Further to the information on my blog yesterday about Aid to the Church in Need, a young staff member there is running a half-marathon in aid of Christians in the Holy Land. Read about it here.
My niece is coming to stay for the weekend, and we are hugely looking forward to this: we have planned a "Thomas More day" with a trip to Hampton Court, because we have been watching (OK, re-watching) A Man for all Seasons with its lovely scenes of a particular stretch of the river that we know extremely well: we've often walked along that path, with the little steps that run satisfyingly up and down along the wall to the Home Park near the Long Water...
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Good article. I notice you resisted the word "priestess".
You are right. The past is seen as both a place of moral evil, and as part of our heritage to be cherished. For Anglicans that leads to ubearable contradictions, because for the small number that still practise that heritage is still a living thing.
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