Culture

Finding colour among Frans Hals’s black-swathed Protestant subjects

haarlem showstoppers. was frans hals a catholic or a protestant? it’s a question which steven nadler fretted about in the portraitist: frans...
Arabella Illingworth

Nothing to see here? Cardinal Ghirlanda denies attempts to change voting rights in next conclave

few things cause catholics more excitement than a papal conclave. so when it was reported by the eminently respectable website the pillar, a...
Gavin Ashenden

Champagne and good cheer at the annual Catholic Herald party

london’s festive party season got underway on wednesday night with flowing champagne at the herald ’s annual drinks party at brown’s hotel i...
The Catholic Herald

US Catholic Universities and Colleges Guide 2023: Top 25

ave maria university ave maria, florida founded by domino’s pizza entrepreneur tom monaghan in 2003, ave maria university is in southwest fl...
The Catholic Herald

'This is not so much a clash of cultures as a clash of gods'

a few days ago, as i walked through the underground a large muslim, four inches taller than me, barreled up to me and out of nowhere threate...
Gavin Ashenden

British Armenians fear a repeat of history as Genocide Memorial vandalised

every november people across britain and the world are invited to observe “red wednesday”, an annual day of commemoration for the 360 millio...
Georgia L. Gilholy

Tu es Petrus: The Gospel influence on Raphael's exposition of papal authority

v&a director tristram hunt on his favourite book of the bible. and i say also unto thee, that thou art peter, and upon this rock i will ...
Tristram Hunt

Cardinal Nichols praises new National Tribunal for managing clerical sex abuse cases

leicester, united kingdom – president of the england and wales bishops’ conference, cardinal vincent nichols, said saturday was a “most sign...
Charles Collins

Welcome questions only? The dubious art of the modern papal interview

rome – in 2010, nevada senatorial candidate sharron angle, a right-wing tea party stalwart, briefly became a national sensation due to some ...
John L Allen

Let’s not canonize Dorothy Day

hannah glickstein wonders whether canonization might obscure her more ordinary, human message. dorothy day was born in november 1897 an...
Hannah Glickstein