Europe

“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

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...

Harriet Rix

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

the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...

Gavin Ashenden

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...

Hugh Kerr

the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...

Piers Paul Read

sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...

The Catholic Herald

antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...

The Catholic Herald

christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...

Daniel Frampton

eight years ago, i wrote an article for the catholic herald in which i warned that an agreement between the vatican and the chinese communis...

B Rogers