Books Archives - Catholic Herald

Reading ‘On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain’ can leave you yearning for a bit more religious commitment

How Evelyn Waugh’s ‘cantankerous’ Catholicism clashed with America’s literary scene at a dinner party in Florence

New book on Venice could say more on religion’s role in the ‘impossible’ city

Alexander Faludy

The spiritual makings of a leader: ‘masterful’ new Ronald Reagan biography

Cardinal Timothy Dolan

Between the Cross and Resurrection: The Harrowing of Hell, according to J.R.R. Tolkien

Stefan Kaminski

What St Paul really meant: Into the Heart of Romans, by NT Wright

Normal Women: 900 years of women making history, by Philippa Gregory

Notre Dame historian reveals institutional flaws and failures within Jesuit order behind current scandals

Chris Altieri/Crux

‘Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism’ highlights constant Catholic thread through historical upheavals

Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

January 13, 2024

Surviving Stonyhurst in the 1960s

January 3, 2024

Recalling the Church to its mission – Apologia: A Memoir, by Fr Aidan Nichols

Julian Kwasniewski

January 2, 2024

‘England and The Papacy in the Early Middle Ages’, by Benjamin Savill

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