Philip Howard: Cardinal Protector of England by Godfrey Anstruther OP ( published by Gacewing in 2020: £20).
For centuries the most pre-eminent Catholic family in England has been that of the Dukes of Norfolk whose family seat is Arundel Castle in Sussex. A convert to Catholicism at the age of 12 in 1641, Philip Cardinal Howard, as the great grandson of the Catholic martyr, Saint Philip Howard, the future cardinal joined the Dominican Order and served the Catholic Church faithfully in the turbulent times of the seventeenth century
-Father James.
Howard is a significant and largely unknown figure, whose career offers historians a valuable key to the complex interaction of religion and politics in seventeenth century England-Professor Judith Champ.
