Culture

Walsh University: Preparing students for their whole lives

tim collins, president of walsh university, on the institution’s faith-driven values. catholic herald: please give us a thumbnail sketch of ...

The Catholic Herald

A Faithful Spy, by Jimmy Burns

covert convert. a faithful spy jimmy burns chiselbury, £22, 390 pages anyone who thinks that fake news is a modern invention needs to read t...

Alexander Norman

The Middle East: A Political History from 395 to the Present, by Jean-Pierre Filiu

the middle east: a political  history from 395 to the present jean-pierre filiu polity, £30, 356 pages this is a work of detailed knowl...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

Here be monsters: Hallowe’en reminds us of very real spiritual dangers

by the end of this month the clocks in the uk will have fallen back, and the days will be shorter. children will walk home from school in th...

Katherine Bennett

Supporting good, traditional parish music: the inaugural St Birinus Festival

the chief conductor of the bbc scottish symphony orchestra invites herald readers to a feast of music in dorchester-upon-thames on a country...

Ryan Wigglesworth

Pope blames West for rise of Islamic State and lawless Libya

pope francis has blamed western military interventions for the rise of the islamic state terror group and for the distabilising of libya and...

On Pilgrimage With: Fra' Max Rumney, Grand Prior of England, Order of Malta

where would you go? easy: the order of malta has its annual pilgrimage to walsingham this month. for me, a pilgrimage involves our lady, and...

What we can learn from Aaron Rosen's What Would Jesus See

seeing as jesus sees. for those of a certain age, it would be easy to misread the title of aaron rosen’s new book as “what would jesus do?” ...

Nick Ripatrazone

'The Church is Christ’s!': How to respond to the Synod on Synodality

when our holy father pope francis initiated the synod on synodality in october 2021, many gasped. others cheered. all were interested in dig...

'This was an Iranian attack on Israel carried out by Hamas'

on october 7 more jews were killed in a single day than at any time since the holocaust. to all the hamas apologists, i want you to thi...

Brooks P V Newmark