SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
October 21, 2021
Stars and bars
October 21, 2021
The Herald’s former chairman Peter Sheppard recalls the origins of the Passage’s flagship gala concert
Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders unite to oppose assisted suicide Bill
October 21, 2021
Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders have united to express their “profound disquiet” at a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. They said the Assisted Dying Bill of crossbench peer Baroness Meacher would put vulnerable people at greater risk of abuse. The intervention of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales;
A fair attempt but could do better
October 21, 2021
Jonathan Bate reviews Between Form and Faith: 
Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel 
by Martyn Sampson
Jonathan Myles-Lea 1969-2021: visionary illustrator of grand designs
October 21, 2021
Geoff Heath-Taylor remembers the landscape artist regarded as the Charles Ryder of country house paintings
Catholic students harassed at British universities
October 21, 2021
Freedom of speech under threat as pro-life student groups and others routinely criticised
Journey from top dog to faithful hound
October 21, 2021
Piers Paul Read reviews Benedict XVI: A Life Volume II: 
Professor and Prefect to Pope and 
Pope Emeritus 1966-the Present 
by Peter Seewald
Investigate offences to prevent future scandals
October 21, 2021
The Holy Father gave the only possible response to the independent inquiry on child sex abuse within the French Catholic Church over 70 years: “shame”. It found some 216,000 children and teenagers – the vast majority boys – have been sexually abused by clergy since the 1950s, with the number perhaps rising to 330,000 if
Catholic MP’s senseless killing must not be in vain
October 21, 2021
The death of Sir David Amess MP diminishes us all: his family and friends, his constituency, his party, British politics. But it is also a loss to the Church. Sir David was a Catholic who took his faith seriously and brought it into public life. He was a disinterested public servant, a champion of his
A joyous conversion
October 21, 2021
It is a cause of genuine rejoicing that Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican bishop of Rochester, has been received into the Catholic Church on the feast of St Michael and All Angels. He was received by Mgr Keith Newton, the Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the body that allows Anglicans
Brian Cox isn’t right about souls
October 21, 2021
Popular physicist Professor Brian Cox says science has ruled out the existence of the soul. Not so, argues Robert Verrill OP
Fireworks and light
October 21, 2021
Thanks to evergreens and pyrotechnics, we have all sorts of ways to ignore the bleakness of winter and look forward to dazzling displays that will soon return
Oh, for a clearer walk with God
October 21, 2021
If homilies are to be engaging, regardless of length, a greater effort must be made, while training candidates for the priesthood, in how to speak
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