12 SEPTEMBER 1992, page 46

To The Great Benefit Of Clergy

Peter Levi THE HABIT OF A LIFETIME by Brocard Sewell Tabb House, £18.95, pp. 181 T he Catholic clergy have for many years contained pleasing and friendly eccentrics who do not......

Calvinism

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Repentance

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