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the US, rather than given to a big newspaper, Francis in so that Francis could address the directly, unfiltered. He had been gently the garden rebuffed. So the call from the ’s Uruguayan priest secretary, Fr Gonzalo tells us he was in his Aemilius, a week later was a delightful shock: garden and just about to plant a large jasmine “Would it be alright if the Holy Father when the audio file arrived in his inbox. It recorded his answers to your questions?” The was the voice of , who had complete interview appeared in last week’s agreed to record his answers to the questions Easter issue of . Ivereigh had put to him about navigating our way through the coronavirus storm. LAST YEAR Austen and his wife Linda and Ivereigh decided to put his headphones on their dogs deserted south Oxfordshire for a and listen to the Pope speaking to him while small farm near Hereford, with charmingly he was digging. By the time the plant was decayed old barns and 15 acres of grass mead- in the ground, watered and mulched, Francis ows, at the edge of a hamlet off a busy road was still only halfway through the third to Wales. He blames Laudato Si’ . The Brecon answer. “I checked the recording,” Austen Ivereigh, who was deputy editor of The Beacons beckon from a far horizon; the Wye, says, “46 minutes!” Tablet in the long winter of the John Paul II swelled by fast Welsh rivers, courses close by; “By the end I was stunned. This was one papacy, has produced two meaty papal and Belmont Abbey is three minutes away in of the deepest, most personal, most heartfelt biographies of Pope Francis, The Great the car. interviews of his pontificate: a spiritual route- Reformer: Pope Francis and the Making of At the end of the interview, Francis says to map through the coronavirus crisis and into a Radical Pope in 2014 and, late last year, Ivereigh: “These are things, dear , that a new future, and the fruit of a deeply prayerful Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His occurred to me reading your questions. If discernment. Sometimes it was obvious he Struggle to Convert the Church, both they’re of any use, great. If they aren’t, please was speaking from notes he had prepared but published by Henry Holt. It’s fair to say throw them into the secret archive – in other there were other moments where his voice Austen is a fan of Francis. He had approached words, the waste paper basket. But one favour slowed down and I could tell he was being the Pope a fortnight earlier with a request I ask, please: ’t put too much effort into taken by his own insights – by the spirit, one for an interview that would be published in reworking this. Just take what’s of use to you, might say.” The Tablet in the UK and Commonweal in and pray for me.”

PUZZLES

PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 703 Enigma n We cannot process entries or prizes at 15 The “old town” area of this city is called Charlemagne’s fo remost warriors (7) 1` 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 present. Please keep entering. Winners Gamla Staden (5) 4 The official “state tree” of Texas (5)

7 8 8 will be notified and prizes awarded 17 Porch/antechamber in some early 5 If “fletching” and “nock” form part of your as soon possible. churches (7) vocabulary, you are this (6) 8 9 20 Ce ntremost of seven hills of 6 Small, single-pointed support for ce ramic 9 10 Across (8) ware in a kiln (4) 10 11 7 German code, first broken by Poles in 22 “O ---- viatorum” (Latin hymn) (4) 13 1950 we stern starring Joel McCrea and early 1930s (6) 23 Word meaning “found in many places Shelley Winte rs (8) 11 12 13 8 Smallest of Jupiter’s Galilean moons (6) throughout the text” (6) 14 Best friend of Virgilia in Shakespeare’s 14 12 13 14 14 9 First name of German film director who, 24 A part of Christian theology concerned Coriolanus (7) 15 16 17 18 after the Second World War, claimed with re conciliation between different 16 Nigerian region in which Ahiara is

17 18 19 19 20 ignorance of Nazi crimes (4) denominations and sects (6) situated, where there was co ntrove rsy over a 10 Repetition of wo rds in beginnings of Down bishop in 2018 (6) 20 21 22 seve ral sentences, used for emphasis (8) 1 Mother ------was born Rita Antoinette 18 Site of the story of Oedipus (6) 21 22 11 The American snack item chicharrón is Rizzo (8) 19 They we re silent until 1927 (5)

23 24 made from this (3,4) 2 Welsh ve rsion of Cornish pasties (6) 21 He and Odysseus fought the Trojans to 12 Small, fenced area of arable land (5) 3 In French literature, one of those who we re recover the body of Achilles (4) 23 26

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