I've been re-reading...

...the prison notes of Cardinal Stefan Wyszinski, published some years ago by Aid to the Church in Need under the title A Freedom Within. When I first read the book, some years ago, it all felt somehow securely centred in an Eastern Europe dominated by Stalinist Communism, all terribly dreadful but far away. Now the notion of a Bishop being arrested by a Government set on an ideological path which seems to be carrying all if history before it doesn't seem so far away at all...more timeless and ever-possible. It has happened in other places since Poland in the 1950s, and the possibilities in the Middle East, Africa and so on seem worryingly possible...