Life

The Lord Camoys: First Catholic Lord Chamberlain since the Reformation

for those with an eye for english religious history there could scarcely have been a more symbolic gesture than tom stonor’s appointment as ...
The Catholic Herald

Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church

as the three wise men make their way home in the latin rite, many eastern christians will only just be ending the fast before the nativity. ...
Fr Mark Woodruff

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: A Prayer to the Three Kings

the end of the christmas octave brings us to epiphany eve: so end our special twelve-days features, which we hope you have enjoyed. for all ...
Evelyn Waugh

Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood

no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...
Fr Paschal Uche

Feasting does not have to be lavish to be festal

preparation is crucial to celebrating christmas well. but so often the kind of preparation most people mean only really adds pressure, and p...
Albert Robertson OP

Sins of a honey-toned broadcaster

confessions: life re-examined edward stourton penguin doubleday, £20, 304 pages edward stourton, the distinguished broadcaster from an emine...
Sir Nicholas Coleridge

The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life

martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...
Karl Gustel Warnberg

Did Dahl even like children?

roald dahl: teller of the unexpected matthew dennison head of zeus, £20, 264 pages perhaps my favourite roald dahl story – and one not, alas...
Alexander Larman

Benedict XVI: how my time as a humanitarian aid worker led me to his writings

in 2008 i returned to ireland after five years working around the world on international humanitarian programmes – in afghanistan, north kor...
Dualta Roughneen

Diary: by William Stirling James

i have been reading of the oscar schindler-like exploits of my friend and herald director brooks newmark, who has not only taken in a ukrain...
William Stirling James