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4 / Zelenskiy’s test

Kyiv’s uncompromising approach to Orthodox Christians connected to the Moscow

patriarchate risks creating an underground church / BY KATHERINE KELAIDIS

6 / My spirits sing

In the last of our Easter to Pentecost series of conversion stories, four young people

reflect on the journeys that led them to Catholicism

8 / Grieving the Spirit A year on from the Pentecost massacre in a Catholic church in south-western

Nigeria, no one has yet been charged / BY JOHN NEWTON

10 / Faith in tradition

A speaker at National Conservatism’s widely mocked conference argues that it raised vital issues few in the mainstream acknowledge / BY SEBASTIAN MILBANK

12 / The long and short of it No Mow May is a great idea, but a little variety in your lawn is easier on the eye

and may be better for biodiversity / BY ISABEL LLOYD

REGULARS Letters 14 The Living Spirit 15 Word from the Cloisters 16 Puzzles 16

NEWS

23 / The Church in the World / News briefing 24 / Pope says nuclear weapons offer only illusion of peace

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

28 / New Caritas head makes three big pledges

30 / Obituary / Christopher Budd

COVER: GWEN JOHN, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH A LETTER, C.1907-09. MUSEE RODIN

BOOKS / PAGE 17

Patrick Hudson The RussoUkrainian War SERHII PLOKHY Ariane Bankes Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists LAURA FREEMAN Lucy Popescu Speed reading on fiction in translation Denis MacShane The Conservative Party After Brexit TIM BALE The EU’s Response to Brexit: United and Effective BRIGID LAFFAN AND STEFAN TELLE Markie RobsonScott The Guest EMMA CLINE

ARTS / PAGE 20 Exhibition Gwen John LAURA GASCOIGNE Theatre Brokeback Mountain MARK LAWSON Cinema Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret ISABELLE GREY Television Maryland LUCY LETHBRIDGE

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