Miles Pattenden, Author at Catholic Herald

Miles Pattenden

March 01, 2023

Miles Pattenden revisits the legacy of Mgr Alfred Gilbey, a quarter of a century after his death. March 26 this year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Alfred Newman Gilbey (1901–98), erstwhile Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University and, later, the saintliest resident of the Travellers Club on London’s Pall Mall. Many Herald readers

All in the best possible taste

December 05, 2022

Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism Suzanna Ivanič Thames & Hudson, £25, 256 pages The visual has always held a special place in Catholic devotion. Not for the Roman Church the iconoclasms of Byzantium, Cromwell or Calvin. Pope Gregory the Great rationalised this approach in the seventh century: “It is one thing to worship a

Succession planning

June 28, 2022

Pope Francis may try to influence the electorate in the conclave, but no one can predict who will succeed him It is a paradox of papal history that each pope can create as many cardinals as he likes, and yet no pope has ever been able to use that power to choose his own successor.

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