Catholic Church

How emperors protected the Papacy from bad popes and created Western Civilization

in the december issue, piers paul read reminded readers of the times when christianity was persecuted. this is not untimely, given the re-co...
James Bogle

Church and state's uneasy relationship

the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...
Piers Paul Read

The Irish Church: saints and sinners

"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster

All in the best possible taste

catholica: the visual culture of catholicism suzanna ivanič thames & hudson, £25, 256 pages the visual has always held a special place i...
Miles Pattenden

Lady Susan Hussey was no threat to Ngozi Fulani

about 6 months ago i was asked by my nigerian friend father m if i would take part in an online conversation about faith in the public squar...
Katherine Bennett

Census 2021 and Newman's 'age of infidelity'

christians are now well into the season of advent, the time of preparation for christmas, the feast of the nativity of jesus christ. this wa...
Simon Caldwell

On Pilgrimage With: Julian Fellowes

where would you go? i have long cherished a near-obsessive desire to see petra, the rose-red city half as old as time. last month, i am happ...
The Catholic Herald

Priest who opened Newman up to the world

fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...
The Catholic Herald

Music on the Moors

it’s hard to see these days, but scratched into a wall at exeter cathedral is the name of a composer who was born four centuries ago this ye...
Michael White

Catholic Herefordshire

unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...
Michael Hodges