David V Barrett, Author at Catholic Herald

David V Barrett

Third Mexican priest killed within a week

April 27, 2018

Five priests have been murdered so far this year in Mexico

Fine art: The artists inspired by a mythical Britain

April 26, 2018

What do you do at the end of your life if you’ve built up an impressive private collection of artwork? Cecil French, a friend of the poet WB Yeats and the actress Florence Farr, was an unsuccessful artist and poet himself, but he collected Pre-Raphaelite art, which had gone out of fashion so was reasonably

Mothers condemn plan to set up ‘censorship zone’ around abortion clinic

April 07, 2018

The mothers, who were helped by pro-life vigils, say they have been ignored by Ealing Council

Teen arrested over ‘satanist’ attack on Catholic church

April 06, 2018

The Church in Great Yarmouth was desecrated during Holy Week

Catholic Mass celebrated in Swedish cathedral for first time in 500 years

April 06, 2018

The Lutheran Church of Sweden has offered the cathedral as a temporary place of worship to a local Catholic parish

China bans bible from online stores

April 06, 2018

The ban comes as China and the Vatican try to negotiate a deal over the appointment of bishops

Fine art: The artists who buried the Pre-Raphaelites

April 05, 2018

There are different types of beauty. If you only appreciate the lithe, long-haired, perpetually youthful ethereal beauties of Burne-Jones and Rossetti, the works of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud may not immediately appeal. But there is a beauty also in the hard, sometimes lumpy reality of the real human body, in contrast to the idealised

Iraqi nun displaced by Islamic State denied UK visa

April 02, 2018

Sister Ban Madleen wanted to visit her sick sister in Britain

Vatican distances itself from claim that Pope doesn’t believe in hell

March 29, 2018

Eugenio Scalfari claimed in La Repubblica that the Pope told him the souls of sinners 'disappear'

Fine art: Art that will dazzle frazzled commuters

March 29, 2018

The London Underground may often be crowded and uncomfortable, but it is brightened up in many stations by public art. Every day countless thousands see the Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road, Tate Britain paintings at Pimlico and tiles commemorating Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street. When Crossrail, which we’ll soon be calling the Elizabeth Line,

Fine art: The show that will make your skin crawl

February 22, 2018

Don’t go to Venom: Killer and Cure, at the Natural History Museum in London if you have a phobia about spiders, wasps or snakes; your skin will be crawling the whole way through. At the entrance is a simple distinction between poison and venom: “If you bite it and you die it’s poison, but if

Fine art: False beards, failed betrothals and a love of art

February 08, 2018

Charles I, as we all learned at school, was our only king to have his head chopped off – by Oliver Cromwell, who then banned fun. What we probably didn’t learn is that Charles I founded the Royal Collection of works of art – and that Cromwell flogged them all off in a fire sale.

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