Peter Mullen, Author at Catholic Herald

Peter Mullen

RIP Hans Kung – A notable renegade and of modern theology

May 01, 2021

Hans Küng, who died recently aged 93, was a “great figure in the theology of the last century whose ideas must always make us reflect on the Catholic Church, the churches, society and culture”.

When church design caused punch-ups

October 26, 2017

Unlocking the Church: the Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space by William Whyte, OUP, £18.99 This alarmingly learned and constantly entertaining book might well have been subtitled “The Disappearance of Whitewash”. For its theme – no, one of its many rich and interlocking themes – is the transformation of British churches in the 19th century

The first global conflict between Christians

October 19, 2017

Faith in Conflict by Stuart Bell, Helion and Co, £25 The most shocking thing about the First World War is that it was a war among Christians. Catholic Frenchmen fought Catholic Germans; quietist English low churchmen were in mortal combat with pious Bavarian Lutherans. Chaplains on both sides celebrated Mass not far behind the front

The Christian sense and sensibility of Jane Austen

July 18, 2017

Jane Austen was Low Church but she had high religious ideals

The Christian sense and sensibility of Jane Austen

January 26, 2017

This year marks the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, at the age of 41. What sort of Christian was this imaginative and highly intelligent woman? Jane was both the daughter and sister of clergymen. Her father, George Austen – “the handsome Proctor” – was vicar of the 12th-century church at Steventon in Hampshire. At a

The power and glory of Eliot’s Little Gidding

December 02, 2016

Across the fields from the A1, nine miles from Huntingdon, is the isolated Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding. TS Eliot visited it in 1936 and named the last poem in his Four Quartets after the church. A tiny place, capable of holding only 30 people, it was where the Anglo-Catholic Nicholas Ferrar

The few and the many

September 15, 2010

Peter Mullen remembers the Battle of Britain on its 70th anniversary

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