Katherine Bennett, Author at Catholic Herald

Katherine Bennett

How to prepare children for greatness and save them from technology

March 16, 2024

It used to be that children were given a key to the door when they reached 21 years of age. The giving of this key signified adulthood and independence. Today, though, we do not wait so long and we give a key to be used from the inside, without needing to even open a door.

A misguided sham: International Women’s Day

March 08, 2024

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day which proclaims to act as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, “celebrating” the achievements of women, gender equality and reproductive rights. Hashtagged #EmbraceEquity, it is a day for all women: short women, tall women, fat women, thin women, rich women, poor women, women with penises and 18”

Pro-life student caught up in Manchester University’s scenes of abortion hysterics talks to Catholic Herald

March 06, 2024

“Get your rosaries off our ovaries” chanted a group of men protesting the first meeting of the Manchester Pro-Life Society, a student group established at Manchester University in January 2024 to “create a pro-life culture on campus”. “Get your rosaries off our testicles” would have been more accurate, but it just doesn’t have quite the

Using ‘baby loss certificates’ to paper over cracks of a ‘post-truth’ world

February 27, 2024

Last week, the British public were presented with two pieces of news that, in another age, might have jarred more noticeably than they have done in the current climate. The first was the news that baby loss certificates would be given to bereaved parents who lose a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy, giving them “formal acknowledgement

Smart phones v. feminine mystique: technology is taking us away from the mystery of humanity

February 22, 2024

After walking for more than an hour through a vast and unfamiliar forest whilst chatting with my brother-in-law about the nil-rate tax band, I turned to glance at the children following behind. One of them, my son, was not there. At first, we were not too worried. He is not an infant, but neither is

The Marist School: Feet on the ground and eyes on the stars

February 01, 2024

Katherine Bennett speaks to the team now running the Marist School near Ascot in the UK. I recently visited the Marist School, near Ascot in the UK. Established in its present form by the Marist Sisters in 1947, it is now also the flagship establishment for the new schools network “Concept Education” (CE). I sat

Harnessing the concealed strength of ‘Woman’

January 30, 2024

I was wondering how to pass the time during a 14-hour drive to the south of France recently. As it turned out, a phone call to my father’s GP surgery covered a good chunk of it. The passage of French towns became punctuated with updated positions in the telephone queue. By Troyes I was caller

New UK director of Word on Fire hopes to set Britain on fire

December 31, 2023

Katherine Bennett talks to Brenden Thompson, the new UK director of Word on Fire, about establishing the ministry here. In the nowhere place of Dante’s Divine Comedy we find the lukewarm – those who, in life, never took a stand for good or for evil and so find themselves with a bunch of other Ken

Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans

December 24, 2023

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of Catholics are arguing after the release of Fiducia Supplicans. Welcome to the contentious end of 2023! Back in 2018 I was at a Catholic event and ran into Austen Ivereigh, the Catholic journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis. I explained to him that

After finding his ‘Chesterton’ feet, Italy’s top male model wants to be a priest

December 20, 2023

The phone in each of our pockets has become the magic mirror on the wall that we consult every hour of every day to ask: “Who is the fairest of them all?” Some of the most insecure young women I know are those who have grown up trapped in a cycle of flattery reinforcement through

‘It’s the world in which we live’: are British schools still helping children to flourish?

December 02, 2023

A FEW WEEKS AGO, during a discussion on the various problems facing British schools, I was presented with a defence of the material routinely given to our children: LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter resources, feminist propaganda, and so on. “This stuff”, I was told, “is happening in the real world and we can’t hide our children

An apocalyptic band sees the world through the incarnation of Christ

November 30, 2023

An apocalyptic band sees the world through the incarnation of Christ. It was around this time of year three years ago that I encountered the music of the US-based band, Dirt Poor Robins. We had all just been plunged into lockdown again and too many people I knew unquestioningly acquiesced to what seemed to be

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