Culture

The miracle of St Fillan

who is the patron saint of mental illness? we hear much today about the need to help the mentally ill, dejected and depressed. but for those...

Playing to the crowd

hogarth: life in progress by jacqueline riding profile books, £30, 534 pages william hogarth (1697-1764) has a good claim to being the first...

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

Jiggery-popery in revolting England

catholics during the english revolution, 1642-1660: politics, sequestration and loyalty,  by eilish gregory boydell press, £75, 234 pag...

Threats to the Extraordinary Form

pope benedict lived up to his title of pontifex, or bridge-builder, when he allowed the wider use of the tridentine rite – more properly the...

The Catholic Herald

You can't take a child from his parents, even if you think you're saving his soul

there is an error catholics and other christians can commit, and have committed, despite the church's own historic warning against it. that ...

Muggeridge on the meaning of life in a monastery

founded in 1946, nunraw abbey (from "nun's row") was the first cistercian monastery in scotland since the reformation. the monastery, locate...

FromtheArchives

Don't apologise for the inquisition

reviewing a book called inquisition: the reign of fear by toby green, quentin de la bedoyere warns against apologetic attempts to rationaliz...

Lessons from the Archives

Elizabeth Jennings: The Catholic bag-lady of poetry

the poet elizabeth jennings was born on this day in 1926. a devout catholic, she attended st anne's college, oxford, where she lived all her...

FromtheArchives

The Catholic Herald reviews The Hobbit

the catholic herald reviewed j. r. r. tolkien's the hobbit about a month after it appeared. the review in the "children's  catholic her...

FromtheArchives