Catholic Church

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...

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...

Catholic Herefordshire

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

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...