PHOTO: ALAMY, MICHAEL DAVID MURPHY

COLUMNS

Melanie McDonagh’s Notebook

‘Benedict grasped the sheer scale of the crisis of faith in the West’ / 7

Shelagh Fogarty

‘A quiet voice told these schoolchildren that they could be saints in their lives’ / 10

REGULARS

Letters 14

The Living Spirit 15

Word from

the Cloisters 16

Puzzles

16

Ethical Kitchen 30

Glimpses of Eden 30

CONTENTS

14 JANUARY 2023 // VOL 277 NO. 9485

THE YEAR AHEAD

4 / The year of Storm Francis

The next twelve months are shaping up to be an intense and dramatic period for the Church, both globally and in England and Wales / BY CHRISTOPHER LAMB

6 / A welcome at the edge of the world

Dorothy Day’s granddaughter explores the idea of creating a “house of hospitality” by the wild Atlantic Ocean / BY KATE HENNESSY

8 / Will we wave goodbye to a sustainable future?

The real action on implementing solutions to climate change will increasingly happen away from the big global summits / BY CARMODY GREY

9 / More mayhem is yet to come

Our lobby correspondent offers her annual reflection on the current state of UK politics and her predictions for 2023 / BY JULIA LANGDON

FEATURES

11/ Monastery of unity

Ahead of the week of prayer for Christian unity an Anglican priest celebrates the role of the ecumenical monks of Chevetogne / BY NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY

13 / Why wasn’t the big day as jolly as we hoped?

This week’s dispatch from the happiness front line considers how we should try to manage our expectations / BY RACHEL KELLY

NEWS

23 / The Church in the World / News briefing 24 / Uproar over President’s asylum policy extension

26 / View from Rome

27 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing

28 / Invitations to celebrate World Peace Day

COVER: VATICAN MEDIA

BOOKS / PAGE 17

Michael Glover

The Translations of

Seamus Heaney ED. MARCO SONZOGNI

Madoc Cairns

All Sorts of Life:

Katherine

Mansfield and the

Art of Risking

Everything

CLAIRE HARMAN

Lucy Beckett

We Could Have

Been Friends, My

Father and I: A

Palestinian Memoir

RAJA SHEHADEH

Patrick Hudson

The Jesuit Mission

in Early Modern

Ireland: 1560-

c.1760

ED. BRIAN MAC

CUARTA SJ AND MARY

ANN LYONS

ARTS / PAGE 20

Exhibition

Vermeer

GREGOR J.M. WEBER

Theatre

Kerry Jackson

MARK LAWSON

Television

Colosseum

LUCY LETHBRIDGE

Radio

The Confessional

D.J. TAYLOR