Culture

"the painter of the future is a colourist such as there hasn’t been before,” vincent van gogh wrote to his brother theo shortly after he mov...

David V Barrett

while it was yet twilight a figure appeared silently and suddenly on a little hill above the city, dark against the fading darkness. .. the ...

James Somerville-Meikle

the tenor ben thapa, who died on 8 september at the early age of 42, found fame as a core member of the pop-opera group g4, which came to pr...

The Catholic Herald

i have long been collecting the macmillan highways and byways series, published between 1898 and 1948. each book covers a different area of ...

Fr Nicholas Schofield

the catholic physicist, mathematician and philosopher wolfgang smith died in july. as a physicist, smith laid the theoretical foundations fo...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

james earl jones, the renowned us actor whose “beautifully sonorous tones” also lent themselves to creating the personality of the iconic st...

The Catholic Herald

trifles are one of my favourite things. given that i’m often faced with the task of mass catering, trifles are the easiest of puddings. they...

Albert Robertson OP

plymouth was so badly bombed in the blitz that when it came to post-war reconstruction, the planners decided they would forget much of the o...

Petroc Trelawny

the global latin mass movement, as the herald has covered in plenty of articles, is one of the most vital, quickly growing and dynamic pheno...

Tom Colsy

pope francis met with fellow members of the jesuit order during his first full day in indonesia which was spent in the capital city of jakar...

Crux Staff