Roy Peachey, Author at Catholic Herald

Roy Peachey

Awe, wonder and a new GCSE

September 24, 2022

Children should learn to love the natural world before studying it for an exam, says Roy Peachey

Minding our language

October 11, 2021

English teacher Roy Peachey on the best way to tackle ‘chronological snobbery’

A hunted priest’s advice on lockdown pilgrimages

September 11, 2020

While he was being hunted down by the Elizabethan authorities during his six years as a missionary priest, St Robert Southwell wrote some of the finest poetry of the 16th century – and some wonderful prose works too. In one of these books, A Short Rule of Good Life, he adapted the advice usually found

Obituary: Audrey Donnithorne, convert who helped China’s Catholics

July 10, 2020

When Audrey Donnithorne, who has died at the age of 97, was just two years old, she was kidnapped by Red Lamp bandits in Sichuan, China, along with her parents and six others. Led into the mountains with their necks in a halter, the captives feared for their lives, though Audrey managed to ease some

What we can learn from the Desert Fathers

May 15, 2020

Self-isolating in the desert, the desert fathers and mothers were determined to obey Jesus’s command to the rich young man to sell all he had and come follow him. We may kick against the restrictions that have been laid on us by the government, but the early Christian hermits believed that God was to be

Making the most of isolation: How to strike a balance in homeschooling

March 26, 2020

Over the next few weeks, and very possibly months, we will have to get used to a new way of living. So how do we adjust to a Church without public Masses? How can we help the most vulnerable? And might there be opportunities to live better lives than we did before? This week, six

Saints, authors and prime ministers: The dramatic story of Japanese Catholicism

November 14, 2019

After his apostolic visit to Thailand later this month, Pope Francis will move on to Japan, a land of saints and martyrs, but also a country where Catholics are in a tiny minority. Less than two per cent of the population is Christian, and less than half of those Christians are Catholics. So, 370 years

The Chinese PM who became a Benedictine monk

November 14, 2018

Lu Zhengxiang went from the height of the Chinese government to a monastic cell in Belgium

The monk who inspired Tintin

November 08, 2018

Noyelles-sur-Mer is an unremarkable village with a remarkable World War II graveyard. Situated at the mouth of the River Somme, Noyelles was the headquarters of the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I, which explains why its cemetery contains almost as many graves as the village has inhabitants. It may be a surprise to find

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