Joanna Bogle, Author at Catholic Herald

Joanna Bogle

November 23, 2017

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the day a prominent cardinal archbishop resigned, at the peak of his career, and left his diocese to spend the rest of his life working in a leprosy clinic in Africa. Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, who made the dramatic announcement in November 1967, was Archbishop of Montreal. He had

Rejoice! We have our feast days back

September 05, 2017

Feast days make the Faith come alive and present a great opportunity to evangelise

Walk of life

August 03, 2017

I am always astonished that so many people come. And then, pondering the importance of the thing, I’m puzzled at my astonishment. We always get a good crowd for the Martyrs’ Walk, held now for several years on the Sunday nearest to the feast of Ss John Fisher and Thomas More. It follows the route

How our parish coped with being in the middle of the London Bridge attack

June 05, 2017

Joanna Bogle on the London parish that witnessed Saturday's terror attack

An English bishop heads into the desert

May 25, 2017

Bishop John MacWilliam, a former British Army officer, is about to take charge of a diocese that is 10 times the size of Great Britain. It has a population of some four million people, of whom only a few hundred – at most – are Catholic. And it is a place of which, I suspect,

Meet the English bishop with a desert diocese 10 times the size of Britain

May 25, 2017

Bishop John MacWilliam's new diocese covers 800,000 square miles of arid land in southern Algeria. 'You go where you are needed,' the former Army officer says

No, Benedict XVI hasn’t been brainwashed

July 28, 2016

The Pope Emeritus stating there is no unpublished secret has only fuelled the Fatima rumour machine

No, Benedict XVI hasn’t been brainwashed

July 28, 2016

When I was in Rome at the end of May, Benedict XVI issued an important statement in response to scurrilous material published on the internet. An online story had suggested that he had, some years ago, told a friend in conversation that there was an unpublished secret about Fatima. This would have meant that he

Seeking God behind bars

June 02, 2016

Prison can be a time for rethinking. As a catechist, I have seen a deep spiritual hunger behind the locked doors

Seeking God behind bars

June 02, 2016

They mostly call you “Miss”, as if you were a schoolteacher. And the whole place does rather have the feel of a school: a big modern, concrete-and-corridors noisy comprehensive. A modern prison isn’t a dark subterranean dungeon with guttering candles revealing gaunt, bearded faces that have not seen the light of day for years. It’s

The return of the ‘hot cross bun nuns’

March 24, 2016

The forthcoming canonisation of Mother Elizabeth Hesselblad, the Swedish woman who re-established the Brigittine Order in the 1900s, not only honours a notable figure of the 20th century but will also emphasise afresh the Church’s commitment to religious freedom and to friendship with the Jewish people. Mother Elizabeth was beatified by Pope St John Paul

Why thanking our priests has become a Holy Week tradition

March 22, 2016

When we saw a protest for women's ordination outside a Chrism Mass, we knew we had to offer a response

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