Education

Catholic Good Schools Guide 2022: Top ten senior schools

downside school somerset headmaster: andrew hobbs takes: girls and boys, aged 13-18 approximately three-quarters of the pupils at downside a...

The Catholic Herald

Thriving on theology back in the classroom

“have you prayed the angelus today?” silence followed, save the noise of shuffling feet. “i’ll try again, year 9. have you prayed the angelu...

Serenhedd James

Catholic Good Schools Guide 2022: From the Editor

welcome to the herald’s first comprehensive guide to the best catholic independent education in the uk – with over 80 schools. we have tried...

The Catholic Herald

Finding God through imagery

when graham sutherland (1903-1980) was asked by his fellow painter john caxton whether his “paintings were made of two facets, flesh and bon...

Daniel Frampton

Italian nun killed by Muslim insurgents in Mozambique

on 6th september, a group of muslim insurgents attacked a mission in memba district, in nampula province, mozambique, and killed three resid...

Eduardo Campos Lima

The truth about the Enoch Burke case

the story of an irish teacher being jailed for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a girl using the pronoun ‘they’...

Dualta Roughneen

Preaching to the unconverted

catholic spectacle and rome’s jews: early modern conversion and resistance emily michelson princeton university press, £30, 352 pages in 155...

An historical study worth waiting for

a biographical dictionary of english architecture, 1540-1640 mark girouard yale, £40, 372 pages mark girouard, born a catholic in 1937, is t...

A fighter for rights

sheila clare hollins – formally known as baroness hollins of wimbledon in the london borough of merton and of grenoside in the county of sou...

Feeding the nation sustainably

as preparations are made to return to school i begin to think of winter stews with barley and log fires, crisp mornings, hot chocolate and a...