Culture

The pursuit of truth, not bells and smells

when i told my literary agent friend that i wanted to write a book about converts to catholicism during the sixty heady years before the vat...

Melanie McDonagh

The entrepreneurs with a higher calling

is it possible to be a good christian and a successful entrepreneur? the bible encourages believers to exploit their talents, which surely i...

For a bestseller, just add religion

how do you solve a problem like maria? so asked the nuns of nonnberg abbey in the sound of music . (pause, please, in remembrance of christo...

Constance Watson

Poetic Justice for Geoffrey Chaucer

the furore over the poet of the canterbury tales being culled from english literature courses taught at various universities, in an attempt ...

The Catholic Herald

A tour of buildings and monuments in Mayfair and St James’s

the buildings of green park: a tour of certain buildings, monuments and other structures in mayfair and st james’s andrew jones, £25, 168 pa...

The changing century

london and the 17th century: the making of the world's greatest city , by margarette lincoln £25, 384 pages, yale university press margarett...

Beauty and the Damned

on 23 february 1821, john keats died of tuberculosis in a house beside the spanish steps in rome, aged just 25. as a lover of the romantic p...

Albrecht Dürer – a traveller's tale

when the national gallery announced their spring show dürer’s journeys: travels of a renaissance artist more than a year ago, they could not...

The year of rewilding ourselves

early on during his custodianship of the garden of eden, adam was tasked with naming the birds and beasts – and presumably bees, too. simon ...

Charting my road to Rome

breathing the light scent of spring air admixed with incense, the priest’s words from exodus rolling like an elixir into our ears and the fe...