Life

New awards recognise nuns as 'unsung heroes' in war against human trafficking

rome – this autumn several organisations are banding together to recognise what they’re calling the “unsung heroes” in the fight against mod...

Instrumentum Laboris or Instrumentum Deceptionis?

the catholic church is indeed in serious need of renewal. but when has the church not been? the task for each generation is one of discernme...

The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times, by Eduard Habsburg

the habsburg way: seven rules for turbulent times eduard habsburg sophia institute press, £18.25, 176 pages eduard habsburg is hungary’...

Eduard Habsburg

Lessons from an unusual school

goodbye, dr banda alexander chula polygon/birlinn, £17.99, 320 pages reading goodbye, dr banda is an initiation into an antique rite. alexan...

How my tweet on Hemingway's Catholicism went viral

over the weekend i shared a tweet about ernest hemingway’s catholicism. although i’ve long enjoyed his work, the fact that he was catholic h...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

The fallout of the sexual revolution

adam and eve after the pill, revisited mary eberstadt ignatius press, £16, 199 pages in 1867 benjamin disraeli addressed fellow diners at a ...

Georgia L. Gilholy

The unintelligibility of American patriotism

the us devotion to the peoples’ ‘unalienable rights’ is a logical fallacy. in the calendar of american civil religion, july 4 is a solemnity...

Our hope in Mary’s Immaculate Heart

in a time of increasing isolation, conflicts and fragmentation - within society, and within the heart of man –  what does the worl...

Michael de la Bédoyère and growing up with the Catholic Herald

stephen le la bédoyère remembers his father michael, who edited the catholic herald between 1934 and 1962, on the 50th anniversary of his de...

Steve de la Bedoyere

Letter from the Editor: July 2023

one of my favourite articles in this issue, with its irish cover, is stephen de la bédoyère’s elegiac account of growing up when his father,...