New Statesman - <![CDATA[Peter Stanford]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/peter_stanford en <![CDATA[Heaven can wait]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200410180045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200410180045 Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way Karol Wojtyla Jonathan Cape, 230pp, £10.99 ISBN

]]> <![CDATA[A bit of a dud]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406280045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406280045 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford Know the Truth: a memoir George Carey HarperCollins, 468pp, £25 ISBN 0007120303

]]> <![CDATA[Don't let the neighbours find out]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210019 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford How do you reform sex offenders? Can they be reformed at all? Shirl Marshall thinks they can and her methods are simple: food and hugs. Peter Stanford reports

]]> <![CDATA[The runaway nun]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050042 Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford The Spiral Staircase: a memoir Karen Armstrong HarperCollins, 342pp, £20 ISBN 0007122284

]]> <![CDATA[Clerical errors]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200402160043 Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford Priests: a calling in crisis Andrew M Greeley University of Chicago Press, 156pp, £13.50 ISBN 0226306445

]]> <![CDATA[Catholic guilt]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200310130045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200310130045 Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome Robert Katz Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 448pp, £20 ISBN 0297846612

]]> <![CDATA[A strange kind of morality]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200303100019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200303100019 Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford At the UN, Angola's vote is courted by the west. But should it not belong in the axis of evil?

]]> <![CDATA[Knock, knock. Who's there? A dead man's spirit]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200204080019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200204080019 Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford Peter Stanford attends a seance and is comforted to find a belief system that does not require us to make the cut at the Pearly Gates

]]> <![CDATA[Another time, another Mandy]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200102050010 http://www.newstatesman.com/200102050010 Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford We are still fascinated by the Profumo affair, not just because of the cast of characters, but because it symbolised profound change

]]> <![CDATA[We can't just vanish, in a split second, can we?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200012250030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200012250030 Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:00:00 GMT Peter Stanford NS Christmas - Now science has disposed of miracles, Heaven has become religion's last good selling point. But what exactly is it like?

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