Dan Hitchens, Author at Catholic Herald

Dan Hitchens

Obituary: Paul Moore, ‘mad monk’ who blew the whistle on bank failure

December 04, 2020

Paul Moore, who has died aged 61, was known by his colleagues at the bank HBOS as the “mad monk”. It was a reference to his Catholicism, but also to his outspokenness on matters of principle – an outspokenness which was vindicated when he became one of the most important financial whistleblowers of modern times.

Aquinas’s guide to the Gospels is perfect for short attention spans

November 16, 2020

What we can learn from the Catena Aurea

‘Breakthrough’ vaccine does not use cell-lines from aborted children

November 09, 2020

However, an old cell-line was involved in a confirmatory test

By banning Mass attendance, the government has crossed a line

November 06, 2020

It’s the bishops, not Boris Johnson, who are ordained to run the Church

The Pope’s reckless words on civil unions will damage the Church

October 25, 2020

His remarks will make life harder for Catholics – and will not help gay people

From the editor’s desk: A post-Christian election

October 01, 2020

While the world still obsesses over American popular culture, speaks American English and is reshaped by American wars, it is necessary to care about the American elections. They are, admittedly, hard to watch: a “Simpsons parody of a Bosch painting”, as Christopher Altieri puts it on page 18. For many voters, not unreasonably, the most

The real problem with Fr Martin’s Democratic convention prayer

August 20, 2020

Fr Martin says he has ‘never challenged’ Church teaching. It’s a curious expression

From the editor’s desk: Herald writers on relating to the complicated past

July 10, 2020

Sometimes an issue of the magazine is planned around a particular theme, and sometimes one just emerges of its own accord. In recent weeks, as protesters have crowded the streets to demand that statues are taken down, Herald writers have been reflecting on how we relate to the complicated past. On page 47, two historians

From the editor’s desk: Truth and falsehood in the new religion

June 14, 2020

Racial injustice is an urgent crisis. But other elements of progressive politics are more dubious

From the editor’s desk: Fully engaged since 1888

May 15, 2020

Only one editor of the Catholic Herald has ever been sent to jail. But Charles Diamond was a major figure in our history: the paper’s founder and, from 1888 to 1934, the man at the editor’s desk. The Herald was founded in the era of Cardinal Manning, when the cause of workers’ rights was at

More than a monthly

April 09, 2020

If you are reading this in the print edition, you hold in your hands a minor historical document: the last weekly edition of the Catholic Herald. As I explained in this space last week, we have decided that the best way to serve our readers is to produce a bigger, more considered and wider-ranging monthly,

Letter to subscribers: Why we’re becoming a monthly magazine

April 02, 2020

Dear Subscribers, You are always in our prayers here at the Catholic Herald, and now more than ever in this strange moment. The pandemic has of course affected the media too: some countries have banned publications altogether, while several titles – including L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s own daily – have suspended printing. The trials of

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