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Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and two kinds of American Catholicism

Grace Kelly took the route of assimilation. Hayworth remained exotic

Diary: by William Cash

in a month’s time, i will be boarding a plane to washington for the launch of the new american weekly edition of the catholic herald. this i...

William Cash

Proving Hawking wrong

stephen hawking’s last book, brief answers to the big questions, has just been published posthumously. we are not surprised to hear of his “...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Portugal: Child’s play

one country offers lessons in how to evangelise young catholics at a time when the church is reflecting on how to attract young people, port...

Filipe D'Avillez

The romantic Catholicism of Rita Hayworth

if one were to tell the story of catholic america in the 20th century, one could do worse than contrast the careers of grace kelly and rita ...

Matthew Schmitz

Germany: A shade of green

merkel’s hand is weakened as her csu ally loses power in its catholic heartland angela merkel’s faltering government has been dealt another ...

Jon Anderson

Manning’s proudest stand

henry edward manning’s engagement with social issues is well known. his work in favour of the jewish people, on the other hand, has not rece...

Fr James Pereiro

Evangelisation: The digital fringe

how bishop barron plans to re-engage lapsed catholics bishop robert barron has pioneered a “digital strategy” for the american church. his w...

Michael Warren Davis

Abuse crisis: The state we’re in

how far will the new department of justice investigation go? state involvement in the ongoing clerical abuse crisis in the american church w...

Michael Warren Davis

Cafod: Communication breakdown

a watchdog’s bark was worse than its bite as the reins change hands at cafod, with chris bain (pictured) departing as director later this ye...

Dan Hitchens

Abortion: The end of stigma?

a new bill aims to redefine how the law sees abortion at midnight on monday, many catholics across portsmouth diocese began a fast, not to b...

Dan Hitchens

Youth synod: The final straight

can the bishops’ concluding document please everyone? a pair of high-profile invitations came to pope francis last week – one from china an...

Christopher R. Altieri

Comment of the week

lobsters, cornish pasties and rigid rules sir – i understand what ann farmer is saying (letter, october 19) but she overstates her case. the...

The Catholic Herald

Omnium gatherum

the collect for the 30th ordinary sunday, also in the 1962 missale romanum for the 13th sunday after pentecost, was in the ancient verona sa...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Word this week

the 30th sunday of the year jer 31:7-9; heb 5:1-6; mk 10:46-52 (year b) the prophet jeremiah was an unwelcome voice to his contemporaries in...

Bishop David McGough

The epiphanies of a Norwegian Trappist

the shattering of loneliness: on christian remembrance by erik varden ocso, bloomsbury, 192pp £10.99 the cistercian community of mount st be...

Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB

In brief

newark, united states university asks for courtesy as students abuse seminarians students at a catholic university have been urged to be civ...

Staff writers

The Yankee who fought for Catholic values

this new collection of the catholic writings of orestes brownson is very welcome. brownson (1803-1876) was one of the few original political...

Gerald Russello

Recovering the delicate radicalism of Debussy

one of this year’s major cultural anniversaries has been the centenary of the death of debussy, a composer who ranks alongside schoenberg an...

Michael White

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