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Chapter & Verse: Brideshead re-edited

brideshead revisited , published in 1945, was evelyn waugh’s first explicitly catholic novel. it lost him, he wrote later, “such esteem” as ...

Allan Massie

A Picnic that’s gone stale

joan lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel picnic at hanging rock , adapted for film by peter weir in 1975, is now a mini-series playing on amazon vi...

Matthew Schmitz

This September, seek a new heart

the days of the eucharistic congress, adoremus, are going to be a time of special grace for the catholic church in england and wales. i urge...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

How pride became a virtue

if someone were to produce a word count of one of the most overused words in our language today, i imagine that the word “pride” would come ...

Mary Kenny

The monks who have to be beer snobs

sir alec guinness reminisced in his memoirs about a visit he made to mount st bernard abbey in 1957, a year after his conversion to the cath...

Simon Caldwell

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...

The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: Mary’s dramatic life needs no embellishment

we may think that parliament can be a little fractious these days, but we are pale shadows of our tudor forebears. in 1586 job throckmorton,...

Jonathan Wright

Music: A murder-mystery opera on ice skates

there are, i suppose, more spiritual ways to spend a sunday morning than strolling through the urban civility of cheltenham’s pittville park...

Michael White

Fine art: From inside an asylum, an imagination set sail

james henry pullen spent all his life after the age of 12 in asylums. in 1855, aged 20, he moved to the newly opened asylum for idiots at ha...

David V Barrett

British exceptionalism from Virgil to Blair

the story of britain by roy strong, weidenfeld, 608pp, £30 sir roy strong is known for his reigns at the victoria and albert museum and the ...

Harry Mount

The worst authors who have ever lived

dictator literature by daniel kalder, oneworld, 400pp, £16.99 daniel kalder is a very funny writer who specialises in russian history and li...

Ed West

Don't think you have what it takes to be a saint? Think again

A book provides inspiration for those who think that saintliness is not for them

Francis Phillips

The McCarrick case shows the dangers of ecclesial ambition

The cardinal allegedly exploited the ambitions of seminarians in order to prey on them

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Omnium Gatherum

in 1959 john xxiii bestowed the title of doctor apostolicus on the franciscan friar st lawrence of brindisi (d 1619). he was a gifted lingui...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Word this week

the 16th sunday of the year jer 23:1-6; eph 2:13-18; mk 6:30-34 (year b) "the apostles rejoined jesus and told him all they had done and tau...

Bishop David McGough

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, july 22: 16th sunday in ordinary time jer 23:1-6; ps 23; eph 2:13-18; mk 6:30-34 monday, july 23...

The Catholic Herald

A quiet moment with Mary as Paris erupts

as france headed towards a resounding victory in the world cup final on sunday night i was in the chapel of the miraculous medal at the rue ...

Fr Dominic Allain

Prize crossword 0551

cryptic across 5 tearful individual, 20, majority protected... (5) 6 ...being short timid sort requiring a spiritual role model (5) 8 minute...

Alun Evans

Charles Coulombe: A road trip to restore the soul

if you are an american who is unhappy with way the united states has gone the past five decades (and what orthodox catholic living in any we...

Charles Coulombe

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