Susan Byron, Author at Catholic Herald

Susan Byron

Congolese Catholics urge cardinal to run for president

August 03, 2018

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya said he has 'other things to do'

Pope Francis says Bishop Tonino Bello was a ‘prophet for our time’

April 20, 2018

The Pope visited Alessano, southern Italy, the birthplace of Bishop Bello, whose Cause was opened in 2007

A novelist’s path from Seneca to Zuckerberg

April 05, 2018

Feel Free by Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton, 464pp, £20 If you happen to work or live with someone who is uncommonly tall, it is unlikely that they preface many conversations with “Being a tall person…” Constantly reaffirming one’s own identity, or aspects of one’s physical appearance, is unnecessary. However, Zadie Smith, at least in this

Film: Sharp, heartfelt and impossible to dislike

March 01, 2018

Ordinary events are imbued with warmth and beauty in Lady Bird (cert 15, 94 mins, ★★★★★), a coming-of-age tale by Greta Gerwig. Her solo directorial debut is a finely judged period piece, which proves, as if there were any doubt, that it is already possible to be nostalgic about 2002. Teenager Christine (Saoirse Ronan) possesses

A dark and sinister story of abandoning dogma

February 15, 2018

The Only Story by Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, 224pp, £17 In 1960s Surrey, teenager Paul meets Susan Macleod, a 48-year-old married mother of two, at his local tennis club, and the two begin a romantic relationship which is to last more than a decade. Paul’s recollection of events is “the only story” of the book’s

Pope Francis offers prayers after Taiwan earthquakes

February 08, 2018

At least 10 people have died and hundreds more injured since Tuesday

Proposed new Australian law could label priests ‘agents of the Vatican’

January 30, 2018

Bishops warn the bill could leave priests and laypeople exposed to the claim they are foreign agents

Arts essay: No film can capture the whole Churchill

January 25, 2018

It is almost impossible to talk about Darkest Hour, the new British-American film about Winston Churchill’s first month as Prime Minister in May 1940, without recalling last year’s Churchill or Dunkirk. That three major films about World War II have been released in quick succession (with Dunkirk triumphing at the box office) indicates that there

Internet was ‘never meant for children’, says bishop

November 21, 2017

It is for the Church to 'defend the dignity of children in the digital age,' Bishop Sherrington said

Vandals carry out ‘provocative’ desecration of Philippines chapel

November 15, 2017

Cardinal Quevedo condemned the attack in which a number of statues were set on fire

Catholics and Protestants see themselves as more similar than different – except in the UK

September 04, 2017

Forty-five per cent of British Catholics said that Catholicism was 'more different than similar' to Protestantism

Cardinal Burke offers Pontifical High Mass in Glasgow parish church

September 04, 2017

The American cardinal's visit was at the request of Una Voce Scotland, an organisation dedicated to the heritage of the Latin rite

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