Word from the Cloisters

11 March 2026, The Tablet

Till death do us part

“We do everything together that can be done together, and only do things apart when they have to be done apart. When you think about it, it’s obvious, isn’t it?” a parishioner from St Mary’s Anglican Church, Battersea in London told me. She had come to hear her new vicar, the American-born priest and poet Erin Clark, in conversation with our former Rome correspondent Christopher Lamb, now covering the Vatican beat for CNN, at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church a few streets away – just the latest in a series of collabora tions between the two parishes.

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