15 JULY 1989, page 17

A Brief Life And A Merry One

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd describes being obituaries editor on the Daily Telegraph OBITUARIES, once generally regarded as the dreary backwater of a newspaper, suddenly seem to......

A Near Miss For The Old Mass

Damian Thompson on the English cardinal who tried to scupper the Tridentine rite IN THE Roman Catholic Church, as in other large organisations, the most impor- tant events......