Catholic Church

Fulton Sheen's brilliant guide to Jesus's last hours

stephen f auth’s the missionary of wall street (sophia institute press, 184pp, £14.40/$15) is subtitled from managing money to saving souls ...

Francis Phillips

It wasn't Colonel Blimp who gave us Brexit

anglo nostalgia by edoardo campanella and marta dassù hurst publications, 234pp, £25/$32.95 there has for some time been a popular theory th...

The Last Czars on Netflix: What did the Romanovs do to deserve this?

the last czars, on netflix, juggles documentary and drama with mixed results. the documentary sections, with commentary from a half dozen or...

Letters & emails

a weakened china will seek scapegoats sir – the leading article in your july 5 issue emphasises something that is too often overlooked or do...

The Catholic Herald

The cautionary tale of Pastor Amy

trouble roils manhattan’s riverside church, the neo-gothic behemoth on the upper west side that serves as one of the enduring bastions of am...

I was agnostic, my friend a 'mere Christian'. We both found the path to Rome

my friend benjamin brazzel’s journey to the catholic church almost began in a mosque. he was invited there by a friend, and was struck ...

What's the point of Catholic high schools?

somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the english classes, the hundreds of extracurricular ...

Britons may as well be living in the Soviet Union

a christian, felix ngole, has won a court action against sheffield university which threw him off his social worker course because he h...

Cardinal Sarah: A prophet of our times

the church’s calendar includes the feast days of several of the great figures of the old testament (though observing them is not obligatory)...

Fr Raymond de Souza

What China's Catholics really think of the Vatican deal

recently i strolled slowly up a hill with a local priest in a remote area of china. he remained close to me as we ascended steep slopes to a...

Anthony E Clark