William Cash, Author at Catholic Herald

William Cash

Letter from the Editor: Concerns over Synod and Conclave

August 01, 2023

The next two years are going to be as important for the Church as the years of Vatican II in the 1960s, during which time the Catholic Herald cemented our then 75-year-old reputation as a world leader in independent Catholic news and commentary. This was largely thanks to our brilliant and fearless Irish-born editor, Desmond

World Youth Day and the cementing of the Vatican-Lisbon axis

July 19, 2023

With six cardinals and Pope Francis visiting next month, William Cash heads to Lisbon to investigate the new special relationship between Portugal and the Vatican. After climbing up the 110 steep steps to the bell tower of the Basilica do Sagrado Coração de Jesus in Lisbon, consecrated in 1789 after a promise from Queen Maria

Letter from the Editor: July 2023

June 30, 2023

One of my favourite articles in this issue, with its Irish cover, is Stephen de la Bédoyère’s elegiac account of growing up when his father, Michael, was editor of the Catholic Herald. Michael stepped down in 1962, having succeeded Irish newspaper entrepreneur Charles Diamond – who founded the Herald in 1888 and edited the weekly

Bishop Neil Scantlebury of Barbados: A local man to tackle local challenges

June 02, 2023

“I just wanted to be a holy priest.” One never knows when God may interfere with retirement plans. After 25 years as a priest, attending Mount St Mary’s Seminary in Maryland in the United States and then serving in the Diocese of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, 55-year-old Fr Neil Scantlebury – a

Letter from the Editor: June 2023

May 28, 2023

I am delighted to see that the National Gallery in London has put on a free show (on until July 30) celebrating the life and legacy of St Francis of Assisi. Our review, on page 72, highlights how lucky we are to have Gabriele Finaldi as director of the National Gallery: “Finaldi really gets religious subjects”,

An old manor house on the road to Fátima has its own story of the miracles

May 22, 2023

How Nuno Vasconcelos, now in his fifties, came to quit his life as a banker to run the Quinta da Alcaidaria-Mór, his family’s historic Portuguese manor house near the Holy Shrine of Fátima, belongs in a Peter Mayle novel. In the 1980s, Mayle tapped into a middle-class escapist fantasy of swapping the rat race to

Letter from the Editor: Crisis in the Church and growth for the Herald

March 03, 2023

I enjoyed reading Peter Frankopan’s Diary for this issue, in which he admits that writing a book is a “very spiritual experience”. After his bestselling The Silk Roads, the Professor of Global History at Oxford University has now turned to an unfinished history of the environment with The Earth Transformed. With the passing of Catholic

Letter from the Editor: Remembering Benedict XVI at Cambridge

January 31, 2023

William Cash remembers Pope Benedict XVI's speech at Fisher House, the Catholic chaplaincy at the University of Cambridge

The ordeal of Cardinal Pell: an interview

January 11, 2023

This article originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of the Catholic Herald. Within a few minutes of meeting Cardinal Pell at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of his upcoming Thomas More lecture in Oxford – the reason he was in England for a week in

The Herald embarks on pilgrimage to the Holy Land

January 03, 2023

The Herald embarks on the ‘pilgrimage of a lifetime’ to the Holy Land with the Order of Malta for a spiritual journey like no other

Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton

January 03, 2023

Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past James Stourton Head of Zeus, £40, 496 pages James Stourton chooses a quotation on the theme of loss to begin this excellent and companionable tour of the British heritage movement: from its Victorian origins, through the cris du coeur of the post-war era, to today when

After 135 years, the Herald begins new US ownership chapter

January 01, 2023

Letter from the Editor: January 2023. In November, the Herald hosted two dinners in America to launch our new non-profit 501c3 Catholic Herald Institute. Our vision is to transform our 135 year Catholic media legacy brand into a multi-media Catholic platform with a global audience and influence to match. The institute will provide us with an unrivalled

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