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A forgotten convert

the life of thomas william allies 1813-1903: “a soul temper’d with fire” michael trott gracewing, £25, 480 pages thomas allies died aged 90 ...

Aquinas' teacher finally gets his due

albertus magnus and the world of nature irven m resnick & kenneth f kitchell jr chicago university press, £16.95, 224 pages one standard...

Albert Robertson OP

Helping homeless young people

the past three years have been tough for many in the uk. coronavirus, and most recently the economic downturn and the dramatic rise in the c...

Christians still attacked and killed for the Faith

“my god, it is hard to be chained and receive blows but i live this moment as you present it to me.” such was the prayer of sister gloria ce...

GK Chesterton's 'enjoyable nightmare' before Christmas

christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...

Daniel Frampton

Sanctifying the world

you might think that it’s odd for george weigel, usually billed as a conservative, to be supporting the second vatican council. because vati...

Gertrude Clarke

Soiled hearts and bloodied fingers

eight years ago, i wrote an article for the catholic herald in which i warned that an agreement between the vatican and the chinese communis...

Discerning the work of the Spirit

the new “listening to everyone and excluding nothing” process so far undertaken in the first two phases of the synod on synodality has been ...

The Immaculate Conception

among non-catholic christians, a common misunderstanding about the doctrine of the immaculate conception is that it is the doctrine that mar...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Why I’m now convinced Shakespeare was a Catholic

interviewing the writer joseph pearce for one of the herald’s recent merely catholic podcasts has opened up a whole new world for me. i foun...