Catholic Converts

Melanie McDonagh, Converts, From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century, Yale University Press 2025  In Siegfried Sassoon’s poem ‘Christ and the Soldier’, an honest Tommy passes by a stone roadside cross somewhere on the Western Front. When he starts chatting to the crucified figure, he hears a whispered reply:Continue reading “Catholic Converts”