This anthology comprises approximately 1000 extracts, 800 of which are prose from the writings of John Donne. An extended introduction considers the complex and contradictory character of John Donne, the wellspring of his literary genius.

The leading Catholic commentator and historian Michael Walsh throws open the mysterious and secretive world of the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. They are Catholicism’s ‘nearly men’ who never became Pope but who have been...

In her modest, sensitive way, Pauline Webb has probably been the most influential British churchwoman in the post-war period, and certainly Methodism's most famous daughter. Challenged by early encounters with injustice in the developing world,...

Written at a time of notoriously lax standards in the Church of England, George Herbert's essay on the calling and work of a parish priest remains fresh and full of wisdom for all who are pursuing this vocation today.