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October 21, 2021

The Herald’s former chairman Peter Sheppard recalls the origins of the Passage’s flagship gala concert

Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders unite to oppose assisted suicide Bill

October 21, 2021

Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders have united to express their “profound disquiet” at a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. They said the Assisted Dying Bill of crossbench peer Baroness Meacher would put vulnerable people at greater risk of abuse. The intervention of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales;

A fair attempt but could do better

October 21, 2021

Jonathan Bate reviews Between Form and Faith:  Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel  by Martyn Sampson

Jonathan Myles-Lea 1969-2021: visionary illustrator of grand designs

October 21, 2021

Geoff Heath-Taylor remembers the landscape artist regarded as the Charles Ryder of country house paintings

Catholic students harassed at British universities

October 21, 2021

Freedom of speech under threat as pro-life student groups and others routinely criticised

Journey from top dog to faithful hound

October 21, 2021

Piers Paul Read reviews Benedict XVI: A Life Volume II:  Professor and Prefect to Pope and  Pope Emeritus 1966-the Present  by Peter Seewald

Investigate offences to prevent future scandals

October 21, 2021

The Holy Father gave the only possible response to the independent inquiry on child sex abuse within the French Catholic Church over 70 years: “shame”. It found some 216,000 children and teenagers – the vast majority boys – have been sexually abused by clergy since the 1950s, with the number perhaps rising to 330,000 if

Catholic MP’s senseless killing must not be in vain

October 21, 2021

The death of Sir David Amess MP diminishes us all: his family and friends, his constituency, his party, British politics. But it is also a loss to the Church. Sir David was a Catholic who took his faith seriously and brought it into public life. He was a disinterested public servant, a champion of his

A joyous conversion

October 21, 2021

It is a cause of genuine rejoicing that Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican bishop of Rochester, has been received into the Catholic Church on the feast of St Michael and All Angels. He was received by Mgr Keith Newton, the Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the body that allows Anglicans

Brian Cox isn’t right about souls

October 21, 2021

Popular physicist Professor Brian Cox says science has ruled out the existence of the soul. Not so, argues Robert Verrill OP

Fireworks and light

October 21, 2021

Thanks to evergreens and pyrotechnics, we have all sorts of ways to ignore the bleakness of winter and look forward to dazzling displays that will soon return

Oh, for a clearer walk with God

October 21, 2021

If homilies are to be engaging, regardless of length, a greater effort must be made, while training candidates for the priesthood, in how to speak