Robert Hugh Benson’s sensational and still popular novel ‘Lord of the World’ – which counts Popes Benedict and Francis among its admirers – is an embodiment of a narrow and suffocating Catholicism that distrusts democracy, science and academic theology and insists on uniformity and submission
15 August 2024, The Tablet
The scourge of the Modernists
Robert Hugh Benson was proud to belong ‘to a Church that just happens to know’
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