Education

Irish teacher sacked by school over use of pronouns for transgender pupil

it was announced on friday that irish schoolteacher, enoch burke, was sacked from his job at wilson hospital school, a private church of ire...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

there’s something almost secretive about the entrance to the royal academy’s spain and the hispanic world: treasures from the hispanic socie...
Ben Stephens

The coronation will be an opportunity for Britain to revive its Christian identity

what are you doing for the coronation?  i mean  you . of course we know we all get a public holiday and there will be commemorativ...
Joanna Bogle

Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood

no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...
Fr Paschal Uche

Believing in a better Britten

sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...
Michael White

Sins of a honey-toned broadcaster

confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...
Sir Nicholas Coleridge

'God wants the very best for you': Benedict XVI in the UK

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

Diary: by William Stirling James

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

On the Third Day of Christmas: The Incarnation

on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...
St Athanasius of Alexandria

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