Europe

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

the man who invented christmas was the irresistible title of a book published in 2008, about charles dickens and his role in shaping or revi...

Niall Gooch

this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...

The Catholic Herald

it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...

Serenhedd James

earlier this month, a conference held in valley forge, pennsylvania, brought together ideas from two seemingly distant worlds. the first-eve...

Karl Gustel Warnberg