Education

University reverses cancellation of chaplain who tweeted against abortion and assisted suicide

a university has performed a u-turn on its decision to “cancel” a catholic chaplain after he tweeted against abortion and assisted suicide. ...

Court threat to university over 'cancellation' of Catholic chaplain

a group committed to upholding the right to freedom of speech has threated a university with legal action after it “cancelled” a catholic ch...

On Pilgrimage with Peter Frankopan

where would you go? assisi. we have been several times before and it has always been a very special place for us. as my wife and i turned 50...

The Catholic Herald

How Latin opens up the world

the trouble with these boys is that the masters have been talking to them about the parthenon when they should have been talking to them abo...

Dominic Sullivan

The best shadows of the year

i long for the coming change in the feel of the garden. i am not a gardener who obsessively tidies in the autumn. in fact, i make great effo...

American Catholic leading relief efforts to evacuate Afghan refugees

one of the leading relief operations that is providing assistance to afghans and others desperate to flee the country is led by a catholic, ...

Architecture’s  Charles Ryder

had it not been for the genius of philip jebb, london’s most famous 20th-century nightclub, annabel’s, originally at 44 berkeley square, mig...

Playing to the crowd

hogarth: life in progress by jacqueline riding profile books, £30, 534 pages william hogarth (1697-1764) has a good claim to being the first...

Breaking the habit

mainstream understanding of wayward nuns is often drawn from the sound of music (1965). maria von trapp’s inability to stick to the script w...

You can't take a child from his parents, even if you think you're saving his soul

there is an error catholics and other christians can commit, and have committed, despite the church's own historic warning against it. that ...