Catholic Herald Magazine – May 2021

Leaders

• Back to basics for a better education system


• Defender of the Faith


• The Queen's Christian Example


• Pentecost in the Catacombs


• Diary – Rt Rev Mgr Canon Philip Moger, Rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

• An empty chair at Easter – Olenka Hamilton on coping with grief on Palm Sunday


• Back in the Habit – Religious communities need more support to be viable, says Serenhedd James


• In praise of Church Ladies – Niall Gooch hails the devout old women who make Mass a joy


• Charterhouse – Jaspreet Singh Boparai pays tribute to Mgr Mark Langham

• Apostasy of the Elites – Catholic answers for the modern world by Gladden Pappin


• Queen of Learning – How a crime writer revived classical education by Mark Bradford


• Living in the mind – Dorothy L Sayers found solace in ideas, not people by Melanie McDonagh


• A modern Pope – Pope Francis promises true fraternity by John Cornwell


• Sacred Sirs – Melanie McDonagh on the Order of the Holy Sepulchre

• The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Amhari, reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


• The Impossible Office? by Anthony Seldon, reviewed by Sir Bill Cash


• The Innocence of Pontius Pilate by David Lloyd Dusenbury, reviewed by Sylvana Tomasell


• Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath, reviewed by Elisa Segrave


• Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers, reviewed by Nicky Haslam


• The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne, reviewed by Helena Kelly


• Katharine Parr: The Sixth wife, by Alison Weir, reviewed by Linda Porter

• The Last Country Parson: Remembering Henry Thorold 100 years after his birth by Michael Hodges


• Jordan Peterson – why Catholics should care about him by Niall Gooch


• A passion for reading – finding religion in books without it by Alexandra DeSanctis

• May Diary – William Cash


• The Garden – Hail Mary, Queen of May by Charlie Hart


• Pointed Arch – Michael Hodges on the churches chewed up by Vatican II


• A curious faith – Prince Philip’s tussle with religion by Philip Eade


• Obituaries – Hans Küng

• The way to Walsingham – An Easter visit to the Holy Shrine in Norfolk by William Cash


• On Pilgrimage with Tracy Borman