Peter Stanford, Author at Catholic Herald

Peter Stanford

January 20, 2024

Where would you go? I was fortunate, a few years ago, to pay a very brief visit to Lalibela. I was on a work trip as a journalist looking at Ethiopia 25 years on from the famine that made headlines around the world. The rest of the group were reluctant to make the detour to

The pilgrimage of a lifetime

June 01, 2021

From Lourdes and Lindisfarne to El Salvador, walking with purpose allows for a more profound look at life

Diary: Guardian angels, Scouse accents and a 12th-century retrochoir

March 21, 2019

Among the bank of menacing clouds hanging over us all at the moment, the rise of anti-Semitism is one of the most disturbing. It is only 75 years since Allied troops liberated the Nazi death camps, where six million Jews had died. That handful of survivors who are still alive continue to talk publicly of

Shattering the silence

March 22, 2018

One of the (few) bonuses of reaching your mid-50s is that it gives you a sense of perspective previously lacking. In my callow youth, when I was editing the Catholic Herald in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I witnessed what I took then to be the death throes of an anti-Catholic prejudice in the

My visit to the scene of a martyrdom

September 21, 2017

The room where Fr Stanley Rother was killed is a spine-tinglingly holy place

‘If my destiny is to die here, so be it’

September 21, 2017

The bullet holes are still there in the room in Santiago Atitlan, in the highlands of Guatemala, where Fr Stanley Francis Rother was murdered on July 28, 1981. One is in the floor under the tabernacle. And there are bloodstains too, faded now but in plain view, on the wall above the low-slung, simple bed,

‘Tony Blair doesn’t deserve the treatment he’s getting’

April 30, 2015

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor reveals why he feels sorry for Tony Blair and recalls the scandal that tested him at Westminster

‘Being a Catholic Liberal can be difficult’

May 14, 2013

Peter Stanford speaks to Sarah Teather, the MP who defied the coalition on welfare and gay marriage

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