Tuesday Book: The enduring fascination of Catholicism Catholics: Britain's largest minority by Dennis Sewell (Viking, pounds 20.00)

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 12, 2001| Author: Peter Stanford | Copyright information

IN AN interview to mark his 70th birthday, the late Basil Hume was asked about the flood of converts to Catholicism unleashed by the Church of England's decision to ordain women. The normally careful Cardinal let slip the phrase "the reconversion of England". It caused a storm and Hume's advisers quickly began to distance him from the remark. The problem was that it reawakened the ghost that the urbane and spiritual Hume had laboured hard to lay to rest - the idea that the Catholic Church in ...

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