Across 7 Valley where Chinon situated, instrumental in the mission of St Joan of Arc (5) 8 Prayers such as requested by Hamlet of Ophelia in the Shakespeare play (7) 10 Pope (XII) who extended the practice of the Stations of the Cross to the whole world (7) 11 A woman of ancient Greece and Rome believed to be a seer (5) 12 Pursuit of a hermitic existence often with mortification of the flesh (10) 16 A short pithy saying (10) 20 City near Boston in the United States, famous for its ‘witch’ trials in 1692 (5) 21 Messenger in the reason for the Feast Day of March 25 (7)

23 Spanish port from where the Armada set out and important Peninsular War battle (7) 24 Surname of St Thomas More’s daughter Margaret upon her marriage (5) Down 1 Composer of early opera, notably Orfeo ed Euridice (5) 2 Five Variants of ----- and Lazarus, work by Vaughan Williams based on Luke 16:19 (5) 3 Venerable Anglo-Saxon monk who wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (4) 4 Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess from whom the word ‘Easter’ derives (6) 5 White wine that originated in Germany in the Rhine Valley (8)

6 Renaissance German artist who painted 24 Across as part of St Thomas’ family portrait (7) 9 Daughter of Herodias who demanded the head of John the Baptist (6) 13 See 19 Down 14 Astronomical unit used in the measurement of stars (6) 15 Follower of the heretic Wycliffe (7) 17 Book of the Old Testament (6) 18 Silk veil worn over shoulders and hands of acolyte carrying mitre at pontifical Mass (5) 19 & 13 Down: Composer, pianist and interpreter of work of her husband, Robert (5,8) 22 Elizabethan Catholic composer of Masses for 3, 4, and 5 voices (4)

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Solution to the 2 March crossword No. 647 Across: 7 Ouija; 8 Exhumes; 10 Oil Well; 11 Later; 12 Necromancy; 16 Descendant; 20 Shute; 21 Rodrigo; 23 Parvenu; 24 Liszt. Down: 1 Conon; 2 Viola; 3 Mare; 4 Kepler; 5 Philemon; 6 Smetana ; 9 Strays; 13 Exegetes; 14 Adds Up; 15 Ossuary; 17 Darius; 18 Minsk; 19 Hosta 22 De La. Winner: Joan Stewart, of Belfast.

WORD FROM THE CLOISTERS

PUZZLES

PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 650 | Alanus

“Billy was perhaps the most colourful Jesuit in the UK in recent years. In his own way, he was a revolutionary,” his fellow Jesuit, Joe Munitiz, told us.

Fr William “Billy” George O’Connell (he was proud of his family’s links with Daniel O’Connell) Hewett died on 17 February. He was born in Malaysia, the son of an Indian army officer, in 1932, and educated at Stonyhurst, where he taught for several years, before moving to the Way community in London, and later to Campion Hall.

He will be remembered for revitalising the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius through the use of music and innovative techniques drawn from psychotherapy. He launched Inigo Enterprises, which combined retreat work with influential publications and cassettes.

One of his former pupils, Philip Endean, said in his funeral homily that Hewett had helped those he met to discover transfiguring beauty: “Billy was a prophet of transformation.” Damian Howard, Provincial for the Jesuits in Britain, told us: “You could hardly have a better exemplar of the classic old Jesuit profile:

a life lived in large, impressive and apparently durable institutions. But Billy could never be entirely contained by them, and regularly found ways to burst through the various con-straints they contrived to put upon him.” Is the phoney war between religion and science over? The winner of the prestigious (and eyewateringly lucrative) Templeton Prize this year is the Brazilian theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, whose bestselling books present science and religion not as competitors in explaining the world but as complementary

expressions of humanity’s hunger to embrace mystery and the unknown. He joins Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks and Jean Vanier amongst those who have “made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works”, and collects £1.1 million. Andrew Pinsent was happy to settle for expenses when he accepted the invitation of Imogen Lavelle, head teacher of Good Shepherd Primary School in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, and the parish priest Fr Mark Vickers, to speak to the students and parents. Fr Pinsent was a particle physicist at the Cern Laboratory working on the Hadron Collider near Geneva before he became a priest. “The investigation of the fundamental components of reality is a bit like dropping a piano from a tall building and listening to the sounds it makes when it smashes,” he explained to his enthralled audience.

Like the agnostic Marcelo Gleiser, the Catholic priest Andrew Pinsent thrillingly shows that, far from slugging it out in a fight to the death, faith is enriched by science and science is enriched by faith. How long will it be before a former Good Shepherd pupil catches the eye of a Templeton Prize judge?

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