Robert Wargas, Author at Catholic Herald

Robert Wargas

Get 20% off all US subscriptions this Easter

April 18, 2019

From now until the end of Monday, April 22, the Catholic Herald is offering 20% off all subscriptions to its new US edition for Easter. Just enter the code EASTER2019 after choosing an option on our subscriptions page. Our US edition is becoming more popular by the day. A subscriber recently wrote us: “If I

London’s restaurants are to die for – literally

February 14, 2019

One of the risks of visiting London is wandering into a restaurant so comprehensively appalling it could have been designed by Gordon Ramsay’s evil twin. Now, you’ll find delicious meals all over that city. But unlike New York, where the quality is more consistent and a truly revolting experience rare, London covers the full spectrum.

Long Island’s little secrets

January 17, 2019

As you approach the final stretch of Long Island, New York, the land mass splits into twin forks, as equally beautiful as they are distinct in culture and reputation. At the apex of that split is a town called Riverhead, sitting, as its name suggests, at the mouth of the Peconic River. It is the

The joy of dining alone

December 13, 2018

“Dining,” someone once said to me, when the subject of eating alone in restaurants came up, “is something you have to do with another person. After all, the prefix ‘di-’ means two.” Maybe I was overwhelmed by this dubious morphology, because I don’t remember how I responded. But I can feel my face warming with

The perfect Christmas gift: 15% off all US subscriptions

December 07, 2018

A December special offer on our new American edition

Catholic Herald US: Thanksgiving subscription offer

November 21, 2018

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing to the new US edition of The Catholic Herald but needed that extra little incentive, now is your chance. We’re offering a special Thanksgiving/Black Friday promotion of 15% off all US subscriptions (this includes gift subscriptions, if you wanted to buy for someone else). This offer will be limited

Thank you to our American readers

November 20, 2018

The US edition of the Catholic Herald has been up and running for only one week, but we’re already burrowing into the American conscience. (Part of this is due to Jeremy Leasor’s fantastic sketches for our cover story. These have been a hit on Twitter.) The feedback has been strong and positive, even from those

November 09, 2018

The weekly newsletter will keep you up to date on our launch, and US Catholic news in general

How I came to embrace grief

December 16, 2017

If you find yourself faced with unimaginable tragedy, how should you deal with this?

Robert Wargas: The beauty and the terror

December 14, 2017

Sometimes I look at old family photographs and count how many people are gone. The number is significant. I am only 32. How have I lost so many people in such a short time? My family has dwindled. Even recent pictures show people who should be here but aren’t. I feel this loss most acutely

A lone voice in Burma

November 23, 2017

For years nobody cared much about Burma. It was an opaque and isolated despotism, its internal moving parts a bleak mystery to the world. Behind its borders lay a country equally beautiful and dangerous. On the one hand, there were the serene medieval temples and pagodas dotting the countryside. On the other, there was the

Renegades, mavericks – and a few Catholics

January 19, 2017

When Roger B Taney, the first Catholic in United States history to assume a Cabinet position, became attorney general in 1831, anti-Catholic bigotry was a prominent feature of American politics — manifest in the worry that “papists” could not really be loyal to their own country. That bias has since faded, the heaviest blow against

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