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A Passion Project
i don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “when i was on the cross last night…”. but there was one the othe...
Michael White
Brick-by-brick Civil War thriller
the siege of loyalty house: a civil war story jessie childs bodley head, £25, 336 pages for a place that witnessed the longest and bloodiest...
John Adamson
Entertaining emperors
the emperors of byzantium kevin lygo thames & hudson, £25, 336 pages it hardly needs saying that any english writer who tackles the hist...
Robin Ward
On pilgrimage with Eamon Duffy
where would you go? to skellig michael. i went there in 1989 after my mother died and i had become rather agitated about my irish iden...
The Catholic Herald
Catholic places of worship Cornwall
cornwall is liberally endowed with villages recording the euphonious names of early celtic saints – st endellion, st enodoc (“blessed be st ...
Michael Hodges
The month of roses
roses, in my garden at least, are now at their best. over the last 10 years, i have created a slightly mad garden over about five acres. at ...
charlie-hart
Foreknowledge and freedom
martin luther is credited with arguing that, because god always knows what we are going to do, we can never act freely. on this view, human ...
Simon Gaine OP
A bittersweet, brilliant memoir of loss and love
don’t put yourself on toast freddy taylor short books, £12.99, 192 pages the finality of the hospital bed arriving home and the patien...
Olenka Hamilton
Awaiting the Supreme Court
it is a grim reminder of the situation in which the us supreme court finds itself that one of its members, judge samuel alito, has reportedl...
Gertrude Clarke
Austen’s extended family affairs
godmersham park gill hornby cornerstone, £14.99, 416 pages all the sins of empire are being remembered nowadays, heroes judged and fou...
Helena Kelly
O brother, where art thou?
i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...
Arabella Byrne
The Paraclete
it will not be until the last sunday in june that we return to green vestments and our regular cycle of readings from st luke’s gospel. the ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Conservative but not clericalist
any body that can muster 500 priests and deacons is a force to be reckoned with, and the confraternity of catholic clergy, which does just t...
Gertrude Clarke
Lifting the lid on the Jesuits
being a jesuit in renaissance italy camilla russell harvard university press, £39.95, 256 pages what makes this book so impressive is the qu...
Fr Michael Holman SJ
Why the overturning of Roe v Wade could reopen the abortion debate in Ireland
the first paragraph of the leaked draft of the supreme court decision to overturn roe v wade states: abortion presents a p...
Dualta Roughneen
There is no human right to abortion
in 1973 in the roe v wade case, the supreme court legalised abortion throughout the united states. now, almost fifty years later ...
David Albert Jones
New South Wales becomes final Australian state to legalise euthanasia
new south wales has become the sixth and final australian state to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. its legislation forces health c...
Kevin-Jones
Catholics join ecumenical celebration of the Millennium of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
the weekend of 14th and 15th may witnessed a historic return of benedictine monks to the site of the abbey of st edmund, bury st edmunds, wh...
Francis Young
Light a candle for St Benet’s Hall
once gone, st benet's hall will be impossible to replace , writes alumnus damian collins mp like all current and former students of st benet...
Damian Collins
Brooks Newmark: Our man in Ukraine
catholic herald director and former mp brooks newmark has helped thousands of refugees to safety during the war former mp brooks newmark has...
Olenka Hamilton
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