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The novelist who defied a spirit-crushing system to achieve greatness
vasily grossman and the soviet century by alexandra popoff yale university press, 424pp, £25/$32.50 vasily grossman is one of the tower...
Thelma Lovell
The Catholic doctor whose ruse saved Jewish lives
the documentary-maker stephen edwards’s most distinguished musical work is the score for his requiem for my mother (2017). the requiem was p...
Deal Hudson
Christopher Koch: A novelist for an age with no answers
the catholic imagination of christopher koch, the australian novelist most remembered for the year of living dangerously (1978),&n...
Karl Schmude
Letters & emails
why we dare to call god ‘father’ sir – steve larkin (charterhouse, july 5) reminds us that fr frederick faber used to speak of our lady as “...
The Catholic Herald
I was wrong about golf
shamefully, i had long been prejudiced against golf and golfers, and was amused when someone described the game as “a good walk spoiled...
Mary Kenny
Was the original Walsingham statue really destroyed – or is it in the V&A?
in 1539 the simple wooden statue of our lady of walsingham that stood beside the altar of walsingham’s holy house, venerated by kings, ...
The Catholic Herald
Which America?
earlier this month, a conference on “national conservatism” in washington, dc, showed that the terms of debate on the american right are cha...
Matthew Schmitz
What Leana Wen didn't know
last week, the department of health and human services announced that clinics referring mothers for abortion services would no longer be abl...
C C Pecknold
What I discovered when I wrote a play about Cherie Blair
as a catholic, i’ve always been fascinated by cherie blair, who was born in 1954 and raised in crosby, a suburb of liverpool with a long-sta...
The Catholic Herald
The inexplicable transfer of St Peter's relics to Constantinople
the decision to send the relics of st peter from the private chapel of the papal apartment to the ecumenical patriarchate of constantin...
Fr Raymond de Souza
'You ask them: Are you serious?': An interview with Cardinal Arinze
it’s a sunny morning in london on the feast of corpus christi and, not coincidentally, i’m standing outside the presbytery of corp...
Dan Hitchens
Diary: The moment I knew I had to be Catholic
in the spring of 2011, i had everything planned out. i was heading to italy for a six-week study abroad programme. my primary goal was to en...
The Catholic Herald
The cardinal struggling to quell a priestly rebellion
the syro-malabar catholic church is in fresh turmoil this week, after its leader faced protests over fraud allegations against him. car...
Saptarshi Ray
Iraqi immigrants supported Trump. So why is his administration deporting them?
poor st thomas is the only apostle remembered not for his faith, but for his doubt. and yet, having placed his hands in christ’s wounds...
Michael Warren Davis
Planned Parenthood's nightmare month
planned parenthood has had a bad month. its president left the organisation last week after serving for less than a year, the trump administ...
Jordan Bloom
'The Bible is my rehab book': Faith and recovery at the Nehemiah Project
the nehemiah project is a christian rehabilitation programme that works with men to overcome drug and alcohol addictions in the london ...
Aaron Benavides
A teenager's spiritual diary has become an unexpected hit
there are many words that describe joe wilson: gracious, affable, gentle, kind, studious, humble, thoughtful, patient and non-judgmenta...
The Catholic Herald
The Amazon synod has a distinctly German flavour
we're still three months away, and already the chatter around the special assembly of the synod of bishops for the pan-amazon region has rea...
Christopher R. Altieri
World News: from Kinshasa to Katuwapitiya
washington, dc archdiocese tight-lipped on mccarrick payouts the archdiocese of washington has declined to comment on ex-cardinal theodore m...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"to do everything possible to stop this humanitarian catastrophe" what pope francis asked of syrian leader bashar al-assad st...
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