Conrad Black, Author at Catholic Herald

Conrad Black

Hillary’s astonishingly politicised Christianity

November 29, 2017

What Happened by Hillary Clinton, Simon & Schuster, 512pp, £20 This is an astonishing and disturbing book. Hillary Clinton writes persuasively of seeking “grace” after her defeat, and concluded her speeches throughout the 2016 campaign calling for “love and kindness”; but this book is unrelievedly ungracious. She describes her opponent as “a clear and present

The decline of the Economist

August 03, 2017

For decades, the Economist steadily built its sale in the United States as it found a market that was constantly growing in wealth and numbers and that could not be reached by the banalities of Time and Newsweek. Henry Luce’s “American Century” at Time tapered off into trite American vanity expressed in sophomoric attempts at

Atheism’s harsh consequences

May 04, 2017

I fear we are losing the capacity for proportionate response to misbehaviour, to temper justice with mercy, to forgive the penitent and to remember that we are all sinners living to some degree in moral glass houses. We are slipping into the practice of consigning moral, ethical and even legal questions to a sort of

Trump’s deserved victory shows American democracy is still working

November 11, 2016

Trump tapped a volcanic lava pool of anger at poor government

Keep calm and carry on, Britain

July 07, 2016

The immediate reaction to the Brexit vote in the international media and financial markets illustrates again the complacency and vacuity of the governing elites of the West. There was never any reason to imagine the remainers would win on the basis of the piffle that David Cameron brought back from Brussels. He promised “full-on treaty

The panic over Brexit will pass like a summer shower

June 29, 2016

Alarmist ravings about the secession of Scotland and Northern Ireland are bunk; the real casualty is the Brussels tyranny

Leave Trump alone, Francis

February 25, 2016

The Pope’s ill-considered comments about Donald Trump are of a piece with hysterical overreactions to him and his candidacy in this and other countries. No pope has so overtly intervened in an American political campaign before. Such interventions are not historically uncommon in some places. Pius IX called the founder and chancellor of the German

The doomsayers are crushed

December 04, 2014

It is a testimony to the strength of the Church that most of the faithful have persevered through this era of informal official atheism

How Pope Francis fooled the Guardianistas

November 05, 2013

Despite the enthusiasm of the left wing media, the Pope is not abandoning the traditional battlements of Catholicism

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