Travel & Pilgrimage

Cracking the Tudors’ courtly code

the tudors in love: the courtly code behind the last medieval dynasty by sarah gristwood oneworld, £20, 400 pages ________ sarah gristwood i...

Canadian mum requests euthanasia for disabled four-year-old son

a mother of a disabled boy is asking the canadian government to extend euthanasia to children so a lethal injection might be given to her so...

Catholic Herald Magazine – August 2021

leaders why catholic journalism matters should president biden be barred from communion? threats to the extraordinary form diary tom tugendh...

The Catholic Herald

On Pilgrimage with Emma Bridgewater

where would you go? the walking around stoke-on-trent is pretty amazing. i know the area because it is where our factories ar...

The Catholic Herald

Architecture’s  Charles Ryder

had it not been for the genius of philip jebb, london’s most famous 20th-century nightclub, annabel’s, originally at 44 berkeley square, mig...

Denny’s divine inspiration

b (after dante) by ned denny carcanet press, £18.99, 348 pages   there are translations, and there are adaptations. the translator’s ar...

Jonathan Gaisman

A monk's letter to a godly man in prison

below is a letter i have written to a prisoner, whose name is joseph. he has been in prison for twenty-fie years and there is no chance for ...

Preston – a rare Catholic cityscape

preston is today a city of some 120,000 inhabitants. it is situated on the north bank of the ribble in lancashire. it is relatively unique a...

Priest jailed on terror charges dies awaiting third bail hearing in India

fr stan swami sj (file photo courtesy of jesuits.org )   the 84-year-old fr stan swami sj died just ahead of his third scheduled bail h...

The Passion(fruit) of St Swithin

what an amazingly versatile food an egg is. i well remember as a child the slogan of “go to work on an egg”, the very successful advertising...