When Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ, a lecturer at Heythrop College in London, visited Lambeth Palace during Christian Unity week last month, she had some fences to mend. In the seventeenth century the foundress of her order, Mary Ward, once visited the Palace on hearing reports that the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, had said she was more dangerous than seven Jesuits. She went to call on him, leaving her companions “sweating with fear”, according to a contemporary account, but