Washed in Milk
Terry Eagleton: Cardinal Newman, 5 August 2010
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint
by John Cornwell.
Continuum, 273 pp., £18.99, May 2010,978 1 4411 5084 4 Show More
by John Cornwell.
Continuum, 273 pp., £18.99, May 2010,
“... I once met a young priest in the west of Ireland who told me that he was to be sent on the missions the following day. ‘Where are you being posted?’ I asked. ‘Birmingham,’ he replied. The Irish Catholic church has always scattered its clergy abroad, and there has been a lay branch of this pastoral exodus as well – nurses, for example. There is a sense in which the Dubliners Bono and Bob Geldof are self-advertising versions of Irish missionaries ... ”