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The US Supreme Court may be about to make a radical ruling on the legal right to abortion 27

COLUMNS

Melanie McDonagh’s Notebook ‘He listened intently to everyone he met; no one felt that they were boring in his company’ / 6

CONTENTS 7 MAY 2022 // VOL 276 NO. 9451

FEATURES

4 / A revolution of the heart Martha Hennessy has in her later years drawn closer to the Church and the

activism of her grandmother, Dorothy Day / BY MADOC CAIRNS

8 / The keeper of the flame John Wilkins did more than rescue The Tablet from closure – he made the paper

essential reading, even in the Vatican / BY MICHAEL WALSH

8 / ‘He embodied all it means to be a Christian’ Friends and colleagues offer their reminiscences of a man who cared deeply

about the Church, his work and the people around him

13 / Sacred rulers

When emperors lose touch with reality, trouble tends to follow. An eminent political historian is not shocked by current events in Ukraine / BY DOMINIC LIEVEN

Clifford Longley ‘John and I were both wary of the expression “Catholic journalist”’ / 14

REGULARS Word from the Cloisters 15 Puzzles 15 Letters 16 The Living Spirit 17

NEWS

24 / The Church in the World / News briefing 25 / Francis ‘suffers and cries’ over Ukraine

27 / View from Rome 28 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing

29 / New archbishop appointed to Cardiff

COVER: THE MUGHAL EMPEROR MUHAMMAD SHAH, 1764, BY MUHAMMAD RIZAVI HINDI; ALAMY/NIDAY PICTURE LIBRARY

ARTS / PAGE 18 Television Mother Teresa LUCY LETHBRIDGE Exhibition Walter Sickert DAVID V. BARRETT Theatre Prima Facie MARK LAWSON Radio Faith in Journalism D.J. TAYLOR

BOOKS / PAGE 21

Christopher Bray The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind NOGA ARIKHA Ysenda Maxtone Graham The Premonitions Bureau SAM KNIGHT Morag MacInnes Shadowlands MATTHEW GREEN Suzi Feay Mother’s Boy PATRICK GALE

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