Ferchi

Anti-Catholic prejudice might be acceptable - even encouraged - in Leftist circles. Racism, on the other hand, is the worst crime in the Lefty rule book - the equivalent to what Catholics would call a mortal sin. If there is a God and He's as unapologetically Right-wing as I think he is, Cardinal Turkson will definitely get the job: it's just too entertaining an opportunity to resist.As for John Rutter, current composer-in-residence to the Church of England and the man who writes the choral soundtrack to Christmas, he told me recently that he thought hymn tunes "a completed art-form, like the English madrigal".