George Young, Author at Catholic Herald

George Young

Napoleon had a fractious relationship with the Church

March 10, 2024

In the Red Rooms of the Louvre in Paris – part of Napoleon III’s maniacal Second Empire regeneration of the city – hangs the gargantuan Coronation of Napoleon (1807) by Jacques-Louis David. It is surrounded by paintings that chart a century of idealism: martyred gavroches, discharged muskets and patriotic oaths. It all converges on the

Explaining the position of Spanish Catholics in November’s protests

December 05, 2023

On July 23rd this year, Spaniards voted in the third inconclusive general election in the past four years, called by the country’s Socialist premier, Pedro Sànchez, after his party’s huge defeat in regional and local elections two months prior – a result widely described as a “right-wing tsunami” for the two main opposition parties, Partido

Louis XVI and the Christmas commitment of a Catholic king

December 04, 2023

Louis XVI’s Last Will and Testament is one of the most overlooked exhortations of the Christian faith – and of the possible graces afforded by kingship, says George Young. On The Genius of Christianity (1802), François-René de Chateaubriand wrote that “when God placed man in this region of tempests, he impressed on him a mark

Blood and blessing? Catholicism and corrida

November 22, 2023

George Young reflects on Catholicism and the corrida, where the only certainty is death. The convergence between bullfighting and Spanish Catholicism could not have been clearer this summer in Madrid’s Plaza de Las Ventas where, each year, a Mass takes place in the ring of what is technically “the largest church in Madrid” on the

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