Robert Wargas, Author at Catholic Herald

Robert Wargas

Why Iran is really cosying up to the Vatican

January 28, 2016

Iranian leaders may fawn over Pope Francis in public, but privately they see the Holy See as a useful tool for achieving their global ambitions

Why Iran is really cosying up to the Vatican

January 28, 2016

On Tuesday morning, a motorcade of limousines crossed St Peter’s Square. Sitting inside one of them was President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, on his way to a strictly private meeting with Pope Francis. We don’t know precisely what was said, but the Vatican announced that the two men had discussed “common spiritual values”, the recent

If it’s Christmas, it must be New York

December 22, 2015

New York Whenever I speak to foreign friends, acquaintances and even strangers near Christmastime, they often openly fantasise about spending the holiday in New York City. They also tend to cite the film Home Alone 2 as the source of this fantasy. Films have that effect: they alter our perceptions of a time and place

Vladimir Putin’s holy war

December 10, 2015

In St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin’s home town, there is a bust depicting him as a Roman emperor. More revealing, however, are the icons which, apparently seriously, depict the Russian president as a saint. The Russian Orthodox Church sometimes treats him like one. Russian documentaries extol Putin as the man who resuscitated Russian spirituality. Kirill I,

Vladimir Putin’s holy war

December 10, 2015

Some traditionalist websites praise Putin as the chief enemy of a Satanic new world order

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