Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• The Spanish mystics for dummies. From the archives.
• St Damien of Molokai’s famous unlikely defender.
• Pope Benedict’s Catholic revival proceeds: talks with Society of St Pius X to start. Predictably the mainstream coverage is bad. The SSPX bishops never left the RC Church in principle (which is why they don’t claim jurisdiction), Bishop Williamson is a Holocaust revisionist not a denier (and it’s not doctrine so who cares?) and there’s no denial of the bishops’ orders; their status is ‘irregular’ (they have no assignment from the official church).
• Chant is a truly missionary, evangelical song.
• Coptic tattoos.