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2 months agoConverts by Melanie McDonagh review the road to Rome Catholicism's unlikely 20th-century resurgence
In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was a whole host of poets, artists and public intellectuals less known to us today, whose going over to Rome provoked envy and dismay.
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