Tantum Ergo: Craig Brown finds The Beatles in Benediction
THE INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY
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After the storm Stephen Bullivant warns that the pandemic will
accelerate the decline in Mass attendance
Catherine Pepinster How lockdown is devastating our mental health • Peter Stanford How the Church broke Tony Slattery
Sara Maitland is losing patience with the Divine Offi ce • Christopher Howse is living on toast Arkady Rzegocki on Pope John Paul II • John Cooney on Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich • Frank Field on Archbishop John Habgood
PLUS RICHARD COCKETT • ALEXANDRA COGHLAN • SUE GAISFORD • RACHEL KELLY • MARK LAWSON