Culture

in 2008 i returned to ireland after five years working around the world on international humanitarian programmes – in afghanistan, north kor...

Dualta Roughneen

alex dimminger (kneeling, in orange) was the youth delegate for the diocese of east anglia during benedict xvi’s visit to the united kingdom...

Alex Dimminger

i have been reading of the oscar schindler-like exploits of my friend and herald director brooks newmark, who has not only taken in a ukrain...

William Stirling James

a happy christmas to all our readers. you may think that this sentiment has somehow got displaced from the christmas issue, but it is in fac...

The Catholic Herald

ben stephens reflects on the life, death, and afterlife of thomas becket, who rose to be henry ii’s lord chancellor and archbishop of canter...

Ben Stephens

gavin ashenden’s recent post in respect of the king’s christmas message 2022 asks whether the king has sowed the destruction of the house of...

Mark Jenkins

(rome) ever since the fr rupnik scandal broke earlier this month — alleging that the slovenian jesuit artist serially abused women religious...

Diana Montagna

has king charles sowed the seeds of the destruction of the house of windsor? dramatically this year the king’s speech refers not just to a f...

Gavin Ashenden

priest-holes – those small spaces in old english houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the elizabethan persecution...

The Catholic Herald

the fading of christian faith as a vital force in modern britain is nowhere more evident than in the broadcast media; its growing coarseness...

Niall Gooch