In the third of his weekly meditations for Lent, Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, ponders Christ the gardener, wisely pruning and cultivating our souls, so that we are able to flourish
In the words of Pinkie, Graham Greene’s protagonist in Brighton Rock: “You know what they say – ‘Between the stirrup and the ground, he something sought and something found’.” “The world is not black and white,” contended Greene towards the end of his life, “more like black and grey.” By his own account, the inner life of Greene was often restless, conflicted and opaque. Yet during his most acclaimed, and most Catholic, middle years, his prose often captured the drama of the human soul with great clarity and colour. “I be
25 February 2016, The Tablet
Part three of Archbishop Leo Cushley's Lent meditation
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