Sister Janet Fearns, Author at Catholic Herald

Sister Janet Fearns

September 20, 2018

Screenwriters still resort to cliché when tackling the supernatural

September 20, 2018

Sister Janet Fearns says screenwriters have a lot to learn about the supernatural One moonlit night in autumn 1976, I was wearing the full-length white habit, scapular, traditional headgear and veil. It was my turn – yet again – to lock the doors and windows in Maryvale, our pastoral centre in Bramley, Surrey. With the

The gruelling trials of a saintly family

November 02, 2017

The Life of St Thérèse of Lisieux by August Pierre Laveille, Ave Maria Press, £15.99 When Mgr August Pierre Laveille interviewed people who knew the parents of St Thérèse, nobody foresaw that, in 2015, Louis and Zélie Martin would also be canonised. Laveille, therefore, could not have known the true richness of his work as

A Way of the Cross for the internet age

January 19, 2017

Stations of the Cross Then and Now by Fr Denis Mcbride CSSR, Redemptorist, £13 ‘The Way of the Cross is not confined to a lonely road in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago: it is a busy highway winding through every village, town and city in our modern world.” And so the cover of Fr Denis McBride’s

Fr Lombardi: a tireless servant of the Church

July 19, 2016

In his time as Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi has encountered moments of great joy but also times which have required sensitive diplomacy

Light at the end of the tunnel of grief

December 22, 2015

Living with Grief By Bairbre Cahill, Redemptorist, £7.95 A lump appeared in my throat and tears in my eyes as I read the first chapter of Bairbre Cahill’s latest book, Living with Grief: Walking the Spiral. It was not so much because she had lost her mother and brother as the fact that, having lost

Book review: How to live after a loved one dies

December 03, 2015

For anyone suffering loss, here is a work that will at once quicken and console, disturb and heal

How to live after a loved one dies

December 01, 2015

The Gift of Grief by Andrew Stringfellow, Redemptorist, £7 One evening in 2014, I stepped out of the bus, looked to see if the road was clear for me to cross – and cried. Without realising, it was the first time that I had taken that particular bus at that particular time since I left

Why women are flocking to religious orders in England and Wales

April 23, 2015

Religious congregations have found a creative new way of communicating their message

The South African communities celebrating ‘one faith and one family’

October 11, 2013

The wonderful work being done by Small Christian Communities is helping sustain faith, life and energy in parishes across Africa

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