Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet The story of Richard Acland opens a window onto a surprising road to political radicalism. It is an unlikely road, following as it does the path of the 15th baronet, owner of estates in Devon and Somerset, but an advocate of...
Christianity, mainly in its Roman Catholic form, has been an integral part of Latin American life for five centuries. It was of course imposed as one of many aspects of Spanish or Portuguese colonial rule, which involved the domination of the local inhabitants and the transport of Africans to work as slaves on sugar plantations.
By Francis McDonagh in Sofia Issue 68 'When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist,' said. Dom Hélder Câmara. Francis McDonagh describes the pilgrim's progress of a born conservative, whose contact with...