Soul

O brother, where art thou?

i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...

Bishops scrap final Covid restrictions by restoring 'Sunday obligation' to attend Mass from Pentecost

the obligation for catholics to attend mass on sunday and holy days is to be re-introduced in england and wales from pentecost. the decision...

Secularist ideologies creating 'state of ignorance' not seen for centuries, says Bishop Davies

secularist ideologies are plunging new generations of people into “an abject state of ignorance” not seen for centuries, the bishop of shrew...

Catholic children should be reading CS Lewis and GK Chesterton, not the blasphemous dross of Simon James Green

let’s keep this simple. if you think inviting an author of sexually explicit material that also has a sprinkling of blasphemy to a catholic ...

Raphael: A Renaissance genius

raphael was, as kenneth clark put it, “one of the civilising forces of the western imagination”. for many of us, he is best known as the pai...

Gertrude Clarke

On Pilgrimage with Terry Eagleton

where would you go? saint-maximin-la-sainte-baume, a village not far from aix-en-provence. its basilica is dedicated to mary magdalene and u...

The Catholic Herald

The Herald’s Guide to Retreats

ampleforth abbey ampleforth, yorkshire founded in 1802, ampleforth abbey is home to the largest benedictine community in the uk, who run a s...

Olenka Hamilton

Chaos or Christianity

it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...

Fighting for faith

mark wahlberg’s early-morning routine would shame the divine office of a medieval cistercian monk. he gets up at 2:30am and then spends 15-2...

Pivot to summer

so much of the life of any garden depends on what happens in the sky above it and spring is when it matters most. the manner in which the at...