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The friendships that history forgot
the first time i attended a service in a catholic church i was 19 years old, and it was the funeral of our friend, the artist kieran mcgoran...
Jenny McCartney
A leap across the great divide
in october 2012, the catholic bishops of germany received an invitation that left them stumped. german protestants had asked them to join in...
Mgr Mark Langham
Get thee from the nunnery
“i do not owe you obedience and i will not obey you ... i am in a good, pious, blessed, honourable, free, spiritual estate, wherein both my ...
Amy Welborn
Luther’s accidental revolution
the devil apparently went out of his way to pester and distract martin luther. he would throw nuts at the ceiling and make casks tumble down...
Jonathan Wright
Ad hominem rules in Rome
my column here a fortnight ago, looking back at the family synod a year later, earned a rebuke from fr thomas rosica, who called it “truly r...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Why Catholics should reject socialism
the economy is not like a monastery or a convent – where everyone has made a conscious decision to renounce their private pursuits and embra...
John Zmirak
Mary Kenny: The feminist who wanted to be a man
that fascinating feminist – she might call herself “post-feminist” – and academic, camille paglia, was in london last weekend, and she spoke...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
the media ignores us in the ‘buffer zone’ debate sir – we are writing to express our deep distress at the current campaign to introduce buff...
The Catholic Herald
Hagia Sophia, Turkey's former cathedral, to appoint full-time imam
The appointment will fuel debate about Turkey's Islamic identity
Staff Reporter
A nuns’ tale of hell that leaves us with hope
the innocents, set in poland in 1945, tells the true story of the red cross doctor madeleine pauliac (“mathilde” in the film) who cared for ...
Benedetta Guarracino
Fine Art: An overwhelming sense of pathos and guilt
beyond caravaggio national gallery, london, until january 15 jointly organised by the national galleries of london, dublin and edinburgh, th...
David Scrase
Music: Oxford is entranced by songs of forbidden love
there was a time when serious song recitals seemed like an endangered species. audiences didn’t want to struggle with the usually french or ...
Michael White
Television: Jude Law is brilliant – but he’s no pope
the young pope is one of those over-complex english-language tv shows that requires subtitles. it clearly contains deep, dark ruminations on...
Tim Stanley
Brentwood Cathedral to be floodlit in red to highlight the plight of persecuted Christians
Brentwood is following the example of Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey
Staff Reporter
Spiritual Books
night’s bright darkness by sally read, ignatius press, £14.50 the story of a person’s conversion is often inspiring, and the poet sally read...
Francis Phillips
How saints brought freedom to Britain
good things of good men by sharon jennings, oremus, £9.99 the chapel of st gregory and st augustine is the first of the side chapels that vi...
Michael Duggan
Why space remains the great unknown
a fortunate universe by ga lewis and la barnes, cambridge, £18.99 in theory, universes can behave in countless different ways and the odds t...
Jonathan Wright
Briefly Noted
jerome gratian by carlos ros (st paul’s, £19.99) . those who have read the letters of st teresa of avila will know of her correspondence wit...
Staff writers
Word This Week
the 31st sunday of the year wis 11:22 – 12:2; 2 thes 1:11-22; lk 19:1-10 (year c) the book of wisdom approaches the conclusion of the jubile...
Bishop David McGough
Saint of the week: Jude the Apostle (October 28)
jude, ‘not iscariot’ st jude of thaddeus was st james the lesser’s brother and a relative of jesus. biblical scholars agree that he was the ...
Staff Reporter
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