Education

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

More channel migrants is not the Christian response

a few weeks ago, at the checkout of a department store close to the seafront in dover, i overheard a mildly alarming exchange between the pe...

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

The pleasures of dissonant reading

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

Aquinas' teacher finally gets his due

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

Joy is the perfect antidote to our angry and unforgiving post-Christian dystopia

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...

In football, we find 'a simple version of the great quest for salvation'

the world cup began on sunday.  i love football as much as the next woman, but i do have some interest in this tournament: my brot...

Katherine Bennett

Cardinal Sarah gives our youth hope 'not by being nice, but by being faithful'

when i was 11 i started at a large co-ed secondary school in what lewis hamilton would later call the “slums” and spent the first few days t...

Katherine Bennett

Ron DeSantis: a different kind of Catholic President?

two big takeaways emerged from the us midterms. the first was that the democrats were not obliterated by a republican “red wave”. the second...

Obituary: Fr Ian Ker was a priest and scholar who opened up Newman’s thought to the world

fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. he was a brilliant writer and bio...