Culture

Already, and not yet: waiting for the coming of Christ

there’s something about advent which speaks to the hearts of us all. because advent is two things. it is a season which is incredibly specia...
Fr Mark Vickers

Doing it for themselves

“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...
Francesca Peacock

Happy holidays?

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...
Harriet Rix

Westminster's plans for more abortions in Northern Ireland

eamon martin, archbishop of armagh and primate of all-ireland, has rejected an announcement by secretary of state chris heaton-harris to fas...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state

the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...
Gavin Ashenden

Anger and Courage: Sheila Hollins and the response to the Church's sexual abuse scandal

photo: baroness hollins and colleagues working on the vatican abuse commission the catholic union’s annual craigmyle lecture was delivered o...
Hugh Kerr

The Irish Church: saints and sinners

"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster

The kingdom of heaven is at hand: spending Advent well

“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...
Fr Mark Vickers

Scion of distinguished recusant family

sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...
The Catholic Herald

Priest who opened Newman up to the world

fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...
The Catholic Herald