Culture

Ron DeSantis: the Catholic rival feared by Trump

the race to become the republican challenger to joe biden in next year’s presidential election has suddenly started to heat up. republican p...

Nicholas Wapshott

Netflix's 'Human Playground' reminds us that play is fundamental to our existence

a bull has the ability to charge at you at up to 35mph. there are 10 40  possible moves in chess. if a cue ball hits half of the intend...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Roald Dahl rewrites: will the Bible be next?

i made the mistake over christmas of letting my kids watch home alone and they have since been rounded up and placed into a young offender’s...

Katherine Bennett

Irish teacher's religious objection to gender affirmation backed by the science

enoch burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at wilson’s hospital school in ireland for refusing to reco...

Dualta Roughneen

Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine

by brooks newmark  i have ended up on february 14 in odesa, an old port city on the black sea in southern ukraine. my wife lucy flew ou...

The Catholic Herald

George Weigel's new book is a colossal contribution to modern Church history

“christendom was over.” these stark words, repeated several times by the great american scholar george weigel in his new book,  to sanc...

Dublin's appalling new 'St Patrick's Festival' bears no resemblance to the feast day's origins

hot on the heels of rebranding christmas festivities in dublin as "winter holidays" and co-opting st brigid’s day on behalf of a mythical ce...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

UK charity Mary's Meals is feeding 2.5 million vulnerable children - and it needs your help

(photo: little josephine has uk charity mary's meals to thank for her lunch at school every day) in the dry and unforgiving landscape of tur...

The legend of the Minotaur comes to Oxford

the sainsbury exhibition galleries at the ashmolean museum in oxford aren’t the largest space in the world, and on entry labyrinth: knossos,...

Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity

we don’t know who coined the phrase: “whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” but einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “...