This Sunday also marks the sixth anniversary of the death of the late Cardinal Thomas Winning. I knew Tom Winning and last met him in Rome in February 2001 at the Consistory at which Desmond Connell of Dublin and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor were created members of the Sacred College of Cardinals. He was thoroughly good company despite displaying an antipathy to all things English, an unfortunate characteristic in my fellow Scots! I do regret his politics and some of his statements were a bit over-the-top. But there was no doubt where he stood - and you knew he was there. You might want to read Stephen McGinty's biography Turbulent Priest to get more of a flavour of the man and his story.
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