Europe

the poet elizabeth jennings was born on this day in 1926. a devout catholic, she attended st anne's college, oxford, where she lived all her...

FromtheArchives

forty-some years ago, i sat in on meetings of the presumptuously-named philosophers club, which met in the home of its san diego founder, a ...

KarlKeating

ten years ago, reporting that the vatican had named st luigi scrosoppi as the patron saint of footballers, the catholic herald 's editors no...

FromtheArchives

apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...

David Mills

“i am beginning to take active steps to carry out my oxford dreams,” the dominican fr raphael moss confided to his diary on 26 june 1904. hi...

Rev Dr Richard Finn

fr stan swami sj (file photo courtesy of jesuits.org )   the 84-year-old fr stan swami sj died just ahead of his third scheduled bail h...

Benwen Lopez

until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...

Cressida Connolly

like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...

Lucien de Guise

goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...

James Jeffrey

modern slavery exists somewhere in the supply chain of every company in britain today, according to peter hugh smith, ceo of investment firm...

Olenka Hamilton