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Why Kaiser Wilhelm was never put on trial
the trial of the kaiser by william schabas oup, 412pp, £25/$35 "we’re going to hang jeff davis from a sour-apple tree,” sang yankee soldiers...
Allan Massie
Covent Garden's Queen of Spades: music on top form
never think that opera is so rarified an entertainment that it doesn’t deal with the realities of life. it does. and tchaikovsky’s queen of ...
Michael White
The extraordinary power of ‘transcendental’ films
in 1971, paul schrader, a film student at ucla, published a book called transcendental style in film: ozu, bresson, dreyer . although he was...
Deal Hudson
How everyone failed the Covington boys
to the boys of covington catholic high school: many of you are still reeling from the trauma of the past few days. some of you are no doubt ...
Sohrab Ahmari
Letters & emails
send bishop barron to washington sir – “few would deny that 2018 was an annus horribilis for the catholic church in the united states.” so w...
The Catholic Herald
Why I had to cross the Tiber
on the morning of january 1, 2019, my family and i began a new life in the catholic church. at mass for the solemnity of mary, mother of god...
Andrew Petiprin
Pope Francis has followed a similar path to Pius IX
when none of my historian friends are looking, i like to draw parallels between pope francis and blessed pope pius ix. of course the pairing...
Matthew Schmitz
Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers: an attempted masterpiece that didn't quite work
anthony burgess’s earthly powers was a great baggy monster of a novel which should perhaps have won the booker prize in 1980, but was beaten...
Allan Massie
Why the Vatican's abuse summit is doomed
a month away from the vatican’s sexual abuse summit and the smell of failure is in the air, emanating not from the holy father’s critics but...
Fr Raymond de Souza
St Bernadette, a medallion and the miraculous saving of a soul
this is a true story, the details set out as accurately as knowledge and memory permit peter was born in thurso, the most northerly town on ...
Allan Scott
In the countryside, England's Catholic heritage remains hidden in plain sight
the winter solstice is well passed, and as the days lengthen so do my forays out into the valley below our farmhouse. our valley hasn’t chan...
Charlie Hart
Why were journalists so quick to blame the Covington boys?
north of 200,000 people converged on washington last friday to stand for the sanctity of life, and all the media told us was a story about a...
Jordan Bloom
This year’s March for Life was a success, not that you'd know that from the media
the 46th march for life (m4l) brought an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 marchers to washington to demonstrate for the legal prohibition of abo...
Jordan Bloom
Outside Paris, French people are more socially conservative than politicians think
for three months, france has been swamped by protests from thousands of french citizens whose patience with their nation’s political establi...
Samuel Gregg
Finding Cardinal Wuerl's successor is an urgent priority
on january 14, the catholic news agency published a puzzling headline: “wuerl denies prior denials denied knowledge of mccarrick seminarian ...
Mark Benbow
The results of a major new survey will both inspire and unnerve Catholics
last week, the knights of columbus and the marist institute for public opinion jointly published two polls that should give catholics a bit ...
Michael Warren Davis
Police investigate a series of petrol bombs threats against churches
"it looked like just an ordinary handwritten letter on the outside. but when i opened it and read what it said, the horror of what it could ...
Dan Hitchens
DFID's relationship with a 'family planning' NGO is coming under scrutiny
in october 2017, penny mordaunt, the international development secretary, announced a zero-tolerance policy for aid organisations. it follow...
Dan Hitchens
The bishops' language games are adding to the confusion
"everybody lies” is the maxim of the fictional dr gregory house, deliciously played by hugh laurie in the television series house. the first...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news
detroit, michigan sister resigns from seminary after abuse allegations a nun has resigned as a faculty member of a seminary in detroit after...
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