How young Catholics are defending – and restoring – Chile’s churches
March 5, 2020
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Last October, Chile was in the news for all the wrong reasons: during anti-government protests, revolutionary groups, largely made up of
What these Herald friends and contributors are giving up for Lent
February 26, 2020
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What are Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lady Antonia Fraser and Mary Killen – among others – giving up this year?
The charity that turns no one away
January 25, 2018
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Tackling homelessness is a tall order. Numerous bureaucratic and philanthropic organisations have dedicated their energies to ending it. Yet Providence
The friars shaking up internet radio
June 8, 2017
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“Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature”: the Bible is consistent in its message that
The friars shaking up internet radio
June 8, 2017
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From a cramped studio in Hampshire, Franciscan friars are serving up prayer, ethical debate and even a comedy drama
The rural Catholic crisis
April 27, 2017
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One of British Catholicism’s most significant divides is between urban and rural. The Church is most visible in towns and
The order of unsung heroes
November 24, 2016
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‘Between believers, we have a better understanding of each other,” the Grand Hospitaller of the Order of Malta tells me.
Meet the 21st-century contemplatives
October 13, 2016
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‘I didn’t want to be a nun at all,” the Sister tells me. “The impression that I had is that
Waugh’s journey to Catholicism
April 7, 2016
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In 1929, my great-grandfather Evelyn Waugh wrote to his brother Alec: “The trouble about the world today is that there’s