Catholic Church

How to… Explain the Holy Trinity

"the mystery of the most holy trinity is the central mystery of the christian faith and of christian life," says the catechism of the cathol...

The Catholic Herald

Walsingham is a powerful symbol as the Church faces a crisis

i returned from leading a retreat in walsingham with the sensation of being filled, rather than emptied spiritually by the experience. fulln...

Fr Dominic Allain

The profound kindness of John Buchan

beyond the thirty-nine steps by ursula buchan, bloomsbury, 492pp, £25/$28 john buchan (1875-1940) has proved more enduring than most of his ...

Infiltration: an unconvincing tale of the Church's enemies

infiltration: the plot to destroy the catholic church from within by taylor marshall crisis publications 224pp, £19.75/$24.95 in 1846, pope ...

Good Omens is a travesty of eschatology

good omens on amazon prime is a five and one-half hour exercise in schoolboy humour, that is, a brand of humour practised by witty adolescen...

Faith is the golden thread running through Stockhausen's work

musical – artistic – modernism is a godless pursuit. or so the maxim runs – especially among those discomfited by dissonance, while modern c...

Peter Quantrill

Letters & emails

could you create a catholic business? sir – in response to the cover story (may 31) entitled “what went wrong?”, in which stephen bullivant ...

The Catholic Herald

When Anglicans founded religious orders

i love oxford. whenever i return there i am enchanted by the medieval origins of the university (and the achievements of men like roger baco...

Charles Coulombe

Don't alter the Our Father

many years ago, when my father found himself in an international setting, someone asked him – i believe it was a hungarian linguist – what t...

Longing for lost worlds won't convert America

when young radicals gathered in the streets of paris in may 1968, régis debray was nowhere to be seen. as his friends playacted at revolutio...

Matthew Schmitz