Joanna Bogle, Author at Catholic Herald

Joanna Bogle

The Mass Revealed, by Ricardo Reyes Castillo

December 06, 2023

The Mass Revealed Ricardo Reyes Castillo Independently published, £11.25, 92 pages This book is whimsical and profound, charming, doctrinally sound and something of a page-turner. It takes us on a slow pilgrimage through the Mass, exploring in depth the profound significance of the movements through which we pass: you can’t say “stages” or even “parts

The Walsingham Way

March 14, 2023

Joanna Bogle reflects on the spiritual potential of a new Camino route and its value to people today. People have walked to Walsingham for centuries. It is a stirring thought that in just over 30 years’ time – when today’s teenagers are middle-aged – the shrine will be a thousand years old. Pilgrims will be

The coronation will be an opportunity for Britain to revive its Christian identity

January 16, 2023

What are you doing for the Coronation? I mean you. Of course we know we all get a public holiday and there will be commemorative mugs and other china and (if there is still some sort of postal service running) stamps. But… parishes, schools, youth groups, various organisations…what will be happening? At the last Coronation, there was

‘I could see the reuniting of Christians with Rome’: Interview with Calvin Robinson

January 09, 2023

People tend to look up to Calvin Robinson. They don’t have any choice: he’s immensely tall. And his striking presence is given added status by a tall mop of hair. He’s a man of strong and clear opinions – but expressed in a pleasant voice and with good humour and a sense of balance. And

St John Paul II: a man for our times

October 22, 2022

On his feast day, we must invoke the aid of John Paul II for our Church and our country, writes Joanna Bogle He was brought up by a single parent, lost a brother while still young, and endured a savage invasion of his country and years of totalitarian rule. At the end of his teens,

The true message of Vatican II

October 18, 2022

As a young Catholic in the 1970s I was repeatedly told that the Second Vatican Council was at best a tragic mistake fuelled by a naïve enthusiasm rooted in the euphoria of the 1960s, or, more likely, a series of interwoven plots orchestrated by sinister forces within the Vatican. As things developed, a mantra often repeated

Sustenance for mind and body

April 29, 2022

The opportunity to restore spiritual sanity should be a vital part of Catholic life, says Joanna Bogle

A century after his birth, thank God for John Paul II

May 15, 2020

A missionary Pope, his achievement looks even greater today

Herald Top 10: The new Sisterhood: traditional orders are booming

December 29, 2019

The blue-and-white clad Sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham have recently acquired a new novitiate, a converted barn in Dereham, Norfolk, on a large stretch of land with another barn which they are turning into extra rooms for their youth work. The community is not large, but it’s growing – and in

Cardinal urges ordinariate to evangelise Britain on its 10th anniversary

November 10, 2019

Cardinal Vincent Nichols urged members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to help with the new evangelisation of Britain, when he preached at a packed Mass to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum coetibus. The apostolic constitution, issued in November 2009, authorised the creation of ordinariates for groups of ex-Anglicans

It hasn’t been easy. But ten years on, the ordinariate is a success story

October 31, 2019

Following the announcement 10 years ago of the creation of ordinariates for groups of former Anglicans who wished to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, substantial interest was to be expected. Since the Church of England’s decision to ordain women in 1992, large numbers of Anglican clergy had been ordained Catholic priests, with

Force of habit: Why men’s religious orders have bounced back

July 04, 2019

Forty years ago, many thought there was no future for men’s religious orders in Britain. I remember someone confidently announcing, back in 1980, that “They’ll all be finished before the year 2000”. Yet now, in this second decade of the 21st century, some male orders seem to be flourishing. I wrote recently in these pages

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