WITTY, radical and unpredictable – that is how actor Ralph Fiennes summed up his great-uncle, Dom Sebastian Moore, who died last week aged 96. The star of The English Patient, Schindler’s List and The Grand Budapest Hotel (reviewed on page 29), told us how much he enjoyed the homilies of Dom Sebastian – known to Fiennes and his family as “Uncle Patrick” – at family weddings and funerals. “We loved them because he was always so radical and what he said was never predictable,” the actor said. “Jesus always seemed in his head an extremely radical and contemporary figure. He made any question of faith exciting and challenging.“As someone who stopped going to church at 13, I always found anything he articulated about belief very
06 March 2014, The Tablet
A radical uncle
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