Soul

the arab conquests by justin marozzi apollo, £18.99, 256 pages  between 634 and 750 ad, arabs created an empire larger than those of al...

Philip Mansel

when i was a novice, our novice master told us that, while god has promised that the church will endure until the end of time, no such promi...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

nazir afzal is the new head of the cssa, the church’s safeguarding body, a role he took on only recently. he’s a muslim: it was a widely wel...

Melanie McDonagh

assisted suicide is back on the legislative agenda with baroness meacher’s private member’s bill to legalise assisted dying in england and w...

The Catholic Herald

it is now 50 years since the 1971 publication of william peter blatty’s bestselling novel the exorcist , inspired by a 1949 case of demonic ...

The Catholic Herald

graham greene once remarked that the biggest problem of our age lies in the fact that we have lost the ability to believe in miracles and th...

Arabella Byrne

this is the first of a weekly series from anthony esolen giving his top ten films in different categories. readers are invited to give their...

Anthony Esolen

chief executive of the national health service simon stevens applauds nhs workers at the excel centre in london, 30 march 2020. (stefan rous...

Philip Booth

pope st paul vi receives the archbishop of canterbury, michael ramsey, in the sistine chapel on 24 march 1966. (keystone/hulton archive/gett...

Michael Duggan

caryll houselander was a mystic, religious writer, artist, and notorious eccentric with both a great capacity for work and a willingness to ...

Lessons from the Archives