Heres a sneak peek at the lead story from the January 7-14 issue, on Tony Blairs journey to the Catholic Church, and why he was advised not to convert while still in office.

This article appears in January 7 2008.

Austen Ivereigh is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford, and a biographer of Pope Francis. In 2020 he collaborated with Pope Francis on Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, published by Simon & Schuster. His most recent book is First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis, published by Loyola Press.