Catherine Pepinster, Author at Catholic Herald

Catherine Pepinster

November 12, 2018

Ushaw College has been resurrected as a residential research centre

November 08, 2018

Ushaw College looks a forbidding place as you drive there across the moors outside Durham, and finding a new role for the former Catholic seminary must have seemed an almost insurmountable challenge when it closed in 2011. But seven years later, it is thriving. It has retained its Catholic ethos, it houses Durham University’s music

Diary: by Catherine Pepinster

July 05, 2018

One of the pleasures of a London summer are the parties. A green swathe of lawn, a glass of ice-cool prosecco, and catching up with people one’s not seen in a while. Perfect. Last week at one such gathering I bumped into the poet Michael Glover. He has been researching a book on 101 little-known

When churches close: the day of reckoning for St Winifride’s

January 11, 2018

A 14-year battle over the closure of an Aberystwyth church exposes the stark realities of Welsh Catholicism today

Day of reckoning for St Winifride’s

January 11, 2018

Rarely can a parish church have inspired as much passion as Our Lady of the Angels and St Winefride, in the centre of Aberystwyth, on the coast of west Wales. For 14 years its fate has hung in the balance, as bishops, diocesan officials, priests and lay people have debated, argued and fought over its

The revival of a church that was nearly lost

August 17, 2017

Last week, one of Manchester’s most popular churches opened its doors after nine weeks of repairs and maintenance. Renovating The Holy Name was quite a task, for it’s a huge basilica-like building. But there is more to it than sheer size. It is one of the masterpieces by the Victorian architect Joseph Hansom, and it

Archbishop Stack: lottery funders do not understand the purpose of a Catholic church

July 10, 2017

'They have an Anglican-centric view of what a church is. They don’t understand our sacred space,' the archbishop said

Prince Charles is following the Queen’s example by strengthening ties with the Vatican

April 03, 2017

Prince Charles will meet Pope Francis in Rome this week

The year that healed the rift

March 23, 2017

If any year can be said to have made a difference to the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Holy See, it is 1982. Today Catholics recall it as the year when a pope first set foot on Britain’s soil, but reaching that point took hundreds of years. And there was a stumbling block along the

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