St Paul VI saved my son
October 18, 2018
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The isolated, gloomy Pontiff is a sympathetic figure – and I have an extra reason to be grateful to him
Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI
October 18, 2018
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I have no doubt that Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple
Arts essay: A good man who was so nearly Catholic
July 26, 2018
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In one of those gorgeous verbal doodles with which he filled the pages of his absorbing (and at the time
Walther’s Saints of the Week: 4-10 March
March 5, 2018
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Including an Irish saint who loved birds, and the unfortunately-named St Arian
Walther’s Saints of the Week: 18 – 24 February
February 18, 2018
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Including a great English martyr and a monk famed for his icon painting
Walther’s Saints of the Week: 11-17 February
February 11, 2018
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Including the Florentine nobleman who led a life of uninterrupted charity
Walther’s Saints of the Week: 4 – 10 February
February 4, 2018
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Including the king who relinquished his throne and the martyr who threw herself onto a fire
Walther’s Saints of the Week: 28 January–3 February
January 28, 2018
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Including the saint who travelled on the back of a sea monster, and a weaver who was forced to become a bishop
Matthew Walther: Genesis: why you should Adam and Eve it
October 26, 2017
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Of all the folks who could end up in the headlines in the Year of Our Lord MMXVII, our first
Steven Runciman rejected the Church, but understood it
September 21, 2017
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‘Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory,” says the baron to his son in Disraeli’s
Matthew Walther: Stop cordoning off the sacraments
August 3, 2017
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There are plenty of things for which I thank God: good friends, the health of my children, the glorious tenth
Parish life has become insufferably middle-class
August 3, 2017
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Marriage and baptism are not bourgeois rites of passage. We need to make them easier