Leslie Thornton obituary

Sculptor whose very human figures pointed to the frailty of lifeWhen, during the second Vatican council, the future Cardinal Heenan was made archbishop of Westminster, his place in Liverpool was taken by Bishop George Beck. The battle between Catholic traditionalists and modernisers was embodied in Frederick Gibberd’s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, then under construction. Nicknamed Paddy’s Wigwam, this was insistently modernist; Archbishop Beck, however, was not. Appalled by the