Sohrab Ahmari, Author at Catholic Herald

Sohrab Ahmari

Dear Covington boys: Everyone failed you

January 22, 2019

To the boys of Covington Catholic High School: Many of you are still reeling from the trauma of the past few days. Some of you are no doubt fending off vicious online attacks, instigated by loudmouths on the internet with blue checkmarks next to their names. Your parents are worried sick about what all this portends

Why I take issue with Taki

January 10, 2019

Let me do something that Panagiotis “Taki” Theodoracopulos can’t be expected to do, at least not graciously: namely, acknowledge his lapses, both factual and moral. I’m speaking of his column in the Herald’s Christmas issue, published to the chagrin of many of the magazine’s friends. In it, Taki attempted to mount a defence of the

Why Taki’s views disgust me

January 02, 2019

Sohrab Ahmari argues that the veteran Greek playboy has ignorantly misrepresented the New York Times

The trouble with modern art: it’s just so dated

December 24, 2018

After a few years’ absence (while living in London), I stopped by New York’s Museum of Modern Art recently, and the thing that struck me most was how tired, how retro, how decidedly dated and un-modern, much of the art seemed. I don’t just mean the retrospective of works by the American sculptor and installation-maker

Bruce Springsteen rediscovers his Catholic roots

December 20, 2018

Eternity is calling Bruce Springsteen, and it’s drawing him back to his childhood parish church, whose steeple cast a long shadow over his working-class upbringing and whose liturgies echo in nearly every song he’s written since then. For Springsteen, the Catholic Church stands at the “origins of his dreams and his beliefs”, as one appreciative

A prelate with the spirit of Campion: A tribute to Bishop Morlino

November 29, 2018

Morlino could have accepted accommodation with corruption and moral disorder, but he chose to stand up for the faith

The mystery of Fr Jenkins

November 15, 2018

Can Pope Francis impose a moratorium on the use of “mystery” in Catholic discourse? Can he ban it from official and semi-official Catholic journalism and the chatter of priests and prelates until further notice? It would be a salutary move, because these days the term has lost its precise theological meaning and morphed into a sort

How could I help my grandmother dying in pain? The best comfort was the rosary

May 24, 2018

As my grandmother lay dying in a care home, the only comfort to be found was from the rosary – and the words of Benedict XVI

The love that dwells in death

May 24, 2018

A saccharine, synthetic smell filled the suburban Boston nursing home where my grandmother spent the last two years of her life. It came from the cleaning supplies, though it was so pervasive that I sometimes suspected the staff had it pumped through the ventilation shafts, to mask the scents associated with decayed bodies and men

My journey from Tehran to Rome

September 29, 2016

As a Muslim-born Iranian, I first doubted God, then flirted with Nietzsche and Marxism. But the whisper of conscience kept suggesting that I go to Mass

My journey from Tehran to Rome

September 29, 2016

On July 26, I announced my decision to join the Catholic Church. Hours earlier, a pair of jihadists had attacked a church in France and murdered a priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, while he was celebrating Mass. Two months before that, I had begun studying one-on-one with a priest in London, reading Catholic books and immersing

To the Covington Catholic High School boys: Everyone failed you

January 01, 1970

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