Culture

Fit for a King: the beginnings of Christian iconography

charles scribner reflects on the beginnings of christian iconography, starting at the crib. ever since i was a schoolboy soprano, my favouri...
Charles Scribner

Biden Calls for Unity, Pushes Contentious Agenda

-- washington, dc -- a few minutes past 9pm in washington, dc, us president joe biden entered the chamber of the us house of representatives...
Priscilla Huff

Supreme Court creates 'thought crime' near abortion clinics

praying near abortion facilities could be made a criminal offence in the uk, supreme court judges have ruled. the country’s highest court de...
Simon Caldwell

British spies foiled two plots to kill Pope Francis in Iraq

british intelligence thwarted two terrorist plots to murder pope francis during his 2021 visit to iraq, a new book has revealed. spies tippe...
Simon Caldwell

Out of the Shadows: walking through the night with St John Henry Newman

oxford - “when we know how many good souls would gladly be catholics if they could,” the wispy white haired oratorian priest spoke softly in...
Lauren Spohn

Claud Cockburn: the original 'guerilla journalist' and a paragon of respectability within the trade

h.l. mencken famously observed that the proper relation of journalist to politician should be that of dog to lamppost. this enticing observa...
Anthony McCarthy

Monkish business

the dissolution of the monasteries: a new history by james g clark yale up, £25, 689 pages ________ apart from the black death plague pandem...
John Adamson

Of the Holy Spirit and conclave

almost my first act as i stood on the verge of being received into the catholic church, was to buy a book on the worst popes throughout hist...
Gavin Ashenden

BBC ‘Woman's Hour’ grills nurse on Christian beliefs in trans-related changing room dispute

a darlington nurse was interrogated about her christian beliefs on the bbc's famous woman's hour radio show, being grilled on whether those ...
The Catholic Herald

Dead or alive – or both? The fate of Schrödinger’s Cat has challenged the premises of quantum physics

police were recently called to disperse some animal rights protesters from the cavendish laboratory in cambridge after they got wind of news...
Fr Robert Verrill OP