Dan Hitchens, Author at Catholic Herald

Dan Hitchens

March 03, 2016

In 1933, a German dissident named Konrad Adenauer was placed under house arrest by the Nazis. A devout Catholic, he took the opportunity to study the Church’s social teaching. In the great encyclicals of popes Leo XIII and Pius XI he found an immensely appealing vision – “an order willed by God which was perfectly

Cardinal Pell gets it, says abuse survivor after meeting

March 03, 2016

The cardinal met a group of survivors this morning after four days of questioning by an Australian royal commission

What do the Pope’s contraception comments really mean?

February 19, 2016

No one can be sure – and perhaps we shouldn't read too much into them anyway

What’s the truth about transsexuality?

December 10, 2015

Aoife Assumpta Hart calls herself a “nunnabe” – somebody whose dream is to be a nun. She has wanted to enter religious life since she was eight. But, she says, it can’t happen, for a simple reason. Hart is a transsexual, and although she now identifies as female, she was born male. “Nuns are communities

GK Chesterton was more prophet than jester

June 11, 2015

No longer seen as a ‘counter-cultural foghorn’, the great writer is becoming increasingly popular – and relevant to modern life

Cardinal Burke intervenes in ‘God wills pluralism’ debate

January 01, 1970

Cardinal Raymond Burke has said that a controversial sentence in a document signed by Pope Francis “has to be removed”. Earlier this month, Pope Francis and a senior Muslim cleric, Ahmed el-Tayeb, signed a “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together”. It claimed that “The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour,

January 01, 1970

Was Jesus a tragic figure? The Crucifixion was certainly as brutal and bloody as anything in Sophocles or Shakespeare. It was the kind of death which the ancient Romans reserved mostly for political rebels, and the point was to humiliate its victims as well as torture them. Look how helpless you are when up against

January 01, 1970

Where would you go? Ethiopia. I want to see those underground Churches in Lalibela. As a South African, I’ve always had interest in African art, artefact and jewellery and the Ethopians dress in the most wonderful way. Their modern jewellery, made out of recycled glass, and their traditional stuff is just heavenly. John, my husband,

January 01, 1970

The lives of the saints abound with simple acts of mercy, performed instinctively to those in need. Indeed, these are very often the most cherished and lovingly retold episodes from their heroic lives. Think, for instance, of St Martin of Tours’ dividing his cloak to clothe a naked beggar. Of St Christopher’s willingness to carry

January 01, 1970

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