Culture

unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...

Michael Hodges

i sat on a mower in the middle of a two-acre field. paths of light and dark criss-crossed the grass. bees darted in and out of the chaff. in...

Nick Ripatrazone

antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...

The Catholic Herald

albertus magnus and the world of nature irven m resnick & kenneth f kitchell jr chicago university press, £16.95, 224 pages one standard...

Albert Robertson OP

eight years ago, i wrote an article for the catholic herald in which i warned that an agreement between the vatican and the chinese communis...

B Rogers

the man who invented christmas was the irresistible title of a book published in 2008, about charles dickens and his role in shaping or revi...

Niall Gooch

it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...

Serenhedd James

the uk is officially post-christian. it is “the first time in a census of england and wales that fewer than half of the population have desc...

Laura Perrins

“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...

Gavin Ashenden

earlier this month, a conference held in valley forge, pennsylvania, brought together ideas from two seemingly distant worlds. the first-eve...

Karl Gustel Warnberg