Alfred Searls, Author at Catholic Herald

Alfred Searls

Hugh Dormer: ‘Catholicism made him what he became’

November 02, 2023

Alfred Searls on Hugh Dormer: formed at Ampleforth and killed in the Second World War. Eighty years ago, a young officer in the Irish Guards was about to undergo an extraordinary test of faith as he parachuted, one moonlit night, into the heart of darkness that was Nazi-occupied Europe, on a secret mission to sabotage

The sci-fi classic that rose out of Monte Cassino’s ruins

June 13, 2019

It is often said that a writer’s inspiration can come from anywhere, but 75 years ago the muse was to be found falling from the bomb bays of an armada of American bombers. What is perhaps even more unusual is that such an occurrence was also the wellspring for both an inspired defence of Catholic

The cathedral that never was

February 25, 2016

Sixty years ago work resumed on a project in Liverpool which, had it been completed, would have seen England blessed with a Catholic cathedral of such vast majesty that only St Peter’s in Rome would have exceeded it. Yet within two years this dream, born of the ambitious faith of Archbishop Richard Downey and the

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