Education

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

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...
Niall Gooch

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...
Laura Perrins

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