Dan Hitchens, Author at Catholic Herald

Dan Hitchens

February 15, 2018

The man sitting a few feet away from me – spry and youthful for his 68 years, polite, unflappable – does not look like a firebrand. But Cardinal Blase Cupich has been a controversial figure since at least 2011, when as Bishop of Spokane he discouraged his priests and seminarians from attending pro-life vigils. More

Cardinal Cupich defends Pope’s record on doctrine and abuse

February 10, 2018

Cardinal Cupich called for a 'paradigm shift' in pastoral practice and said that the Pope recognised the need to 'listen' to abuse survivors

The evangelicals split by ecumenism

February 08, 2018

In 1846 – a year after the ex-Evangelical John Henry Newman became Catholic – an Evangelical alliance was founded in London. It was “for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals belonging to different churches” – and they did not mean Catholics, or for that matter liberal Protestants. The group, which would become the World

The opaque world of Vatican honours

January 25, 2018

Maybe Hilaire Belloc had a point. In 1934, when the Vatican granted him a knighthood in the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great, Belloc – so the story goes – refused to open the letter. After his secretary badgered him, the great author sighed: “Why should I accept an ‘honour’ from some greasy monsignor?”

The minister who could lift the cap

January 18, 2018

Damian Hinds, Britain’s new Education Secretary, has gained an unfair reputation for being boringly reliable. “No one, as far as I can see,” wrote the Conservative commentator Andrew Gimson last week, “has yet managed to write an exciting article about Hinds.” Those who have taken a look at Hinds’s YouTube channel – which, admittedly, has

Profile: Damian Hinds, the Catholic being tipped as a future prime minister

January 17, 2018

The new Education Secretary voted for same-sex marriage. But he could be the man who lifts restrictions on Catholic schools

Abortion campaigner says she is ‘very honoured’ by pontifical award

January 15, 2018

It is not clear whether Pope Francis was aware of Lilianne Ploumen being made a Dame in the Order of St Gregory the Great

Seifert: Vatican’s pro-contraception theologian must ‘revoke his grave errors’ or resign

January 12, 2018

The philosopher, a former member of St John Paul II's pro-life academy, said that accepting Fr Chiodi's remarks would be a ‘betrayal’

Cover story: Key moments in Paul VI’s pontificate

January 11, 2018

Election As a seasoned Vatican diplomat and a cardinal closely associated with Vatican II, Paul VI was an unsurprising choice to succeed Pope St John XXIII. He re-opened the Council, which had been suspended on John’s death, and brought it to completion. He then had to preside over the conflicts that followed – one of

Pope Francis and the Macri problem

January 11, 2018

As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was not always on friendly terms with Argentina’s political leaders. On one famous occasion in 2004, he preached a sermon denouncing “dishonest and mediocre” politics with President Néstor Kirchner sitting in the congregation. Presidents come and go, but even after his elevation to the papacy Francis has

The cardinal with the Pope on his side

January 04, 2018

Pope Francis aside, there is no more prominent Latin American Catholic than Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. The Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is president of the Church’s worldwide charity arm, Caritas. In the 1990s, he served as president of the Latin American bishops’ conference. Francis himself has given Cardinal Maradiaga yet another high position: he

Five bishops reaffirm traditional teaching on Communion

January 03, 2018

Former US nuncio Archbishop Vigano joined the Kazakhstan bishops in an apparent response to Pope Francis

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