Mark Dowd, Author at Catholic Herald

Mark Dowd

Pain and suffering in God’s broken world

March 30, 2022

After decades of uncertainty, how Catholic author Mark Dowd learnt to live with a faith dilemma

The Magnificat is the original underdog story

June 02, 2016

Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without another spat on social media, a venue in which it seems even the most mild-mannered people can be transformed into intemperate demons. I do my best to avoid getting involved, but when this one popped up on Facebook in the aftermath of Leicester City’s remarkable Premiership triumph,

The ‘guardian angel’ of refugees

March 24, 2016

Immigrants dying at sea, in boats that were vehicles of hope and became vehicles of death. When I first heard of this tragedy a few weeks ago, and realised that it happens all too frequently, it has constantly come back to me like a painful thorn in my heart. So I felt that I had

The ‘guardian angel’ of refugees

March 24, 2016

When migrants are floundering in the Mediterranean there is one man they know they can turn to: a sleep-deprived priest who once fled his own homeland

The final 24 hours of a martyr

May 21, 2015

Archbishop Oscar Romero knew that his uncompromising defence of the poor would have only one outcome

How I changed my mind about the Pope

September 10, 2010

Mark Dowd embarks on a personal quest to understand Pope Benedict XVI

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