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  • Poem: A baptism

    Brompton Oratory, a hot lunch-time in July, a baby being received into the Catholic Church and Catholic upper-crust society; dressed-up, a group stands round the font. Otherwise the building’s almost empty, save a scattering of oddballs dotted round the nave, the occasional stray tourist fleeing from the sun.   A little girl in blue and

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