Caroline Wyatt, Author at Catholic Herald

Caroline Wyatt

Caroline Wyatt: I’m seriously ill, but still grateful

April 12, 2018

Outside, the spring sunshine warms the stately courtyard of a London hospital. Inside, it’s cool and dark. I’m lying in an air-conditioned room inside an MRI scanner which is using a strong magnetic field and radio waves to generate images of my brain. The scanner sounds like a discordant orchestra as its magnetic waves penetrate

Orwell’s debt to Christianity

January 05, 2017

Later this year, a statue of George Orwell will stand outside BBC New Broadcasting House, cigarette in hand, looking quizzically at passersby. In the Oxfordshire studio of the sculptor Martin Jennings, the tall, thin figure of Orwell is gradually taking shape, his maquette instantly recognisable as the writer who did so much to shape our

Caroline Wyatt: The no-nonsense saint who cared for me

September 15, 2016

The sky was an immaculate blue, and a strong September sun warmed the pilgrims squeezing into St Peter’s Square, burnishing the droplets from its two fountains into a liquid gold. Pope Francis could not have chosen a more beautiful day for the canonisation of Mother Teresa. Around the Vatican the sense of occasion had been

Sorry, no search matching search results found. Please try again.