Nicola Barker

Is the Virgin Mary being sidelined by Rome?

Chris Maunder fights heroically against the Catholic church’s recent tendency to see enthusiastic Marian worship as unsettling and eccentric

Madonna of the Recommended by Cola da Roma and Giovanni Antonio da Roma. [Bridgeman Images] 
issue 02 April 2022

  • Mary, Founder of Christianity

    Chris Maunder

    Oneworld, pp. 288, £18

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