Culture

Don’t expect the EU Iron Curtain to crack if Czechs change same-sex marriage law

a cultural iron curtain now very much divides the two halves of the eu. to the west, are the more progressive, ethnically diverse and secula...

Rood awakenings in East Anglia – The Golden Legend, by Michael Hodges

the golden legend michael hodges   self-published, £35, 320 pages this encyclopaedic study of the artworks in the churches of east...

EXCLUSIVE: Church where mystic received ecstasies faces closure after Latin Masses halted

the catholic church in which the victorian mystic teresa higginson was said to have received rapturous visions of the crucifixion is threate...

Rheingold: Opera as life and death at the Royal Opera House

michael white enjoys an environmental rheingold, a quest for happiness and an epic celebration of stephen sondheim. as someone put it to me ...

Idealism pitted against boomtown vice

anyone looking for a fully immersive fictional experience to transport them out of a dismal locked-down start to the year and into another w...

Emilie Morrison

California's Original Sin (It's Not What You Think)

a priest once asked me how california got to be the morally decadent place that it is, and my answer — the gold rush — took him by surprise....

JeffreyCulbreath

The 'right to sex' was a step too far for the Supreme Court, but they still have questions to answer

legal decisions don’t normally make for exciting reading, but can tell you a great deal about what happens when legislators a...

Prof Andrew Tettenborn

Podcast 35: Simon Johnson, Master of Music

in this 35 th episode of merely catholic, the podcast series for the catholic herald , dr gavin ashenden talks to simon johnson, the master ...

The Catholic Herald

Mexican court sides with diocese in transgender row over baptismal certificates

a court in mexico has thrown out an attempt by a transgender activist to force the catholic church to doctor baptismal records to reflect a ...

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, by John T McGreevy

catholicism: a global history from the french revolution to pope francis john t mcgreevy  ww norton & co, £22.99, 528 pages the glo...

Deacon Stephen Morgan