Columns

Potshots at Winston miss the mark

churchill’s shadow: an astonishing life and a dangerous legacy by geoffrey wheatcroft bodley head, £25, 545 pages _________ ‘history with it...

Holding Cromwell to account

what an extraordinary historian ronald hutton is. he is justly celebrated as the author of two books on popular customs and the cycle of the...

Melanie McDonagh

The best shadows of the year

i long for the coming change in the feel of the garden. i am not a gardener who obsessively tidies in the autumn. in fact, i make great effo...

‘An indelible mark on the soul’

just four days after the assisted dying bill was introduced into the house of lords, bishop mark davies of shrewsbury issued a pastoral lett...

Canadian mum requests euthanasia for disabled four-year-old son

a mother of a disabled boy is asking the canadian government to extend euthanasia to children so a lethal injection might be given to her so...

Catholic Herald Magazine – August 2021

leaders why catholic journalism matters should president biden be barred from communion? threats to the extraordinary form diary tom tugendh...

The Catholic Herald

Denny’s divine inspiration

b (after dante) by ned denny carcanet press, £18.99, 348 pages   there are translations, and there are adaptations. the translator’s ar...

Jonathan Gaisman

Decline and fall

a sad little notice recently appeared on the universe’s website (“the news site you’ll have faith in”) that “with very much regret” its publ...

Four reasons Francis had to restrict the traditional Latin Mass

this opinion piece will not be tactfully phrased. many essays in the past few days have tried to balance both positive and negative views of...

Summorum Pontificum: a restoration after a gross impoverishment

though it has just been rejected by his successor, benedict xvi's motu propi o summorum pontificum made many people happy when he issued it ...

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