The years after World War II saw a change in the management and ownership of the course when Lord Sefton sold it to the Topham family, who put it in the care of Mirabel Topham.
John Wilkins, editor of The Tablet, believes that after John Paul II there may be a change in the relationship between the Pope and the Church outside Rome.
Some of you may possibly remember an April 2008 Time magazine cover feature that drew a direct parallel between the current battle against climate change and U.S. involvement in World War II against Nazi Germany and Japan.