COLUMN
Joanna Moorhead ‘In the case of Clare and Francis, it seems there was a fair bit of yin and yang in the relationship’ / 7
REGULARS
Letters 14
The Living Spirit 15
Word from
the Cloisters 16
Puzzles
16
From the Vineyard 30
Glimpses of Eden 30
CONTENTS
20 MAY 2023 // VOL. 277 NO. 9503
FEATURES
4 / Behaving like a Borgia
Rishi Sunak’s government is only just clinging to office – yet there may also be trouble ahead for the leader of the Labour Party / BY JULIA LANGDON
6 / Inside the Catholic soul
George Orwell’s anti-Catholicism coexisted with a lively interest in religion, which led to a meeting in 1932 with the Jesuit priest C.C. Martindale / BY D.J. TAYLOR
8 / Seeing the world lit up in wonder
In the seventh of our conversion stories an American studying at Oxford set out on a search for truth that ended in the Catholic Church / BY LAUREN SPOHN
10 / The Tablet Interview: Ben Goldsmith
The farmer and financier says the loss of his daughter transformed his relationship with both his family and the natural world / BY SUZI FEAY
12 / Who dares to take sides in Ireland’s wars?
During the civil war, the Church’s leaders moved decisively to give their support to the Free State government / BY OLIVER RAFFERTY
NEWS
23 / The Church in the World / News briefing 24 / Appeal to Pope over Belarus crackdown
26 / View from Rome
27 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing
28 / Churches celebrate Revelations of Divine Love
COVER: BRIDGE OF SIGHS, OXFORD; ALAMY, ROBERT HARDING
BOOKS / PAGE 17
Christopher Bray
The Crisis of
Democratic
Capitalism
MARTIN WOLF
Liberal Capitalist
Democracy: The
God That Failed
KRISHNAN NAYAR
Fiona Sampson
Sleeping on Islands:
A Life in Poetry
ANDREW MOTION
Patrick Hudson
Speed reading on
Ukraine
Morag MacInnes
Close to Home
MICHAEL MAGEE
ARTS / PAGE 20
Theatre
The return of faith
to the stage
MARK LAWSON
Cinema
Plan 75
ANNA MOORE
Television
Salinger LUCY LETHBRIDGE
