Gerald Russello, Author at Catholic Herald

Gerald Russello

Fr Schall: The man who launched a thousand libraries

April 25, 2019

The legendary Georgetown professor Fr James Schall SJ died peacefully last week, at the age of 91, surrounded by his family. He had retired in 2012, after teaching for more than 30 years in Georgetown’s government department. Despite serious health problems, the books and articles had continued to pour forth. I was privileged to know

The Yankee who fought for Catholic values

October 25, 2018

This new collection of the Catholic writings of Orestes Brownson is very welcome. Brownson (1803-1876) was one of the few original political thinkers America has produced. Born in 1803 of Vermont Yankee stock, he traversed the full range of American religious and political opinion, including time spent as a friend and ally of Emerson and

The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius

May 11, 2017

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet By Thomas Dilworth, Jonathan Cape, £25 David Jones is the author of two of the greatest modern poems in English, In Parenthesis and The Anathemata. He was also a gifted painter and he revolutionised the art of painted inscriptions. Yet Jones has too long been neglected, despite praise from

The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius

May 11, 2017

David Jones' In Parenthesis is "one of the greatest aesthetic and existential achievements of 20th century literature" says Thomas Dilworth

Why Catholics can’t fill America’s moral vacuum

February 09, 2017

Strangers in a Strange Land by Charles J Chaput, Henry Holt, £20 Archbishop Charles Chaput has been one of the bright stars of the American hierarchy, defending traditional Catholic teaching. In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named him Archbishop of Philadelphia – one of the nation’s oldest and largest Catholic sees. He has not yet received

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