Interview

Northern Ireland Executive call for independent victim-centred investigation of Mother and Baby homes and Magdalene Laundries

the northern ireland executive in stormont has ordered an independent investigation into northern ireland's mother and baby homes, after the...
Ferdie Rous

'He was a Catholic before he knew it himself': Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner

catholic writers can convey their faith beautifully in their prose. evelyn waugh managed to insert catholic characters in his novels. tolkie...
Karl Gustel Warnberg

Q&A with Richard Berlie of St Anthony’s Boys, Hampstead

how do you incorporate the catholic faith into school life? whole school mass is celebrated at least once a term usually on a holy day of ob...
The Catholic Herald

Heart over head: Engaging with the Catechism, one paragraph at a time

it’s not that i’m jealous of fr mike schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the catechism in one year – and whic...
Gavin Ashenden

The abdicant generation

many of us find it less inconvenient to be on our own, without the responsibility of commitment. the other day, i was walking across london’...
Ferdie Rous

The empty chair at Easter

it is well known that when someone important dies, significant events, which we normally look forward to with joyful anticipation, become ti...
Olenka Hamilton

In the Beginning...

currently, the most-watched video on youtube that mentions aquinas in its title is “aquinas & the cosmological arguments”. so far, it ha...
Fr Robert Verrill OP