Posts By Date - Catholic Herald

March 16, 2023

The problem with the ‘new allegations’ against St John Paul II

March 16, 2023

As a child in Poland in the 1950s, my mother lived squeezed into a single room in the centre of Krakow, with her father, brother, aunt, uncle, cousins and grandparents, down the corridor from a communist party member who would inform on his neighbours. At the other end of the corridor lived a young man

Jeremy Hunt’s childcare overhaul spells the end for the traditional family

March 16, 2023

When I read that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wanted to get a million more women (he means mothers) back to work, I thought perhaps he had overdone the sherry. When I saw him later, at the dispatch box, declaring that “almost half of non-working mothers said they would prefer to work if they could arrange suitable

St Patrick’s Day: Irish whiskey is Catholic to the core

March 16, 2023

When waves of Irish settlers arrived on the American shores, they quickly became an unsettling presence. The largely Protestant population was appalled by the potential impact of this new influx of “papists” on their recently established way of life. “Idolatrous” Irish Catholics were persecuted and their property destroyed, all of which has surely contributed to

Wine is an essential part of our Christian culture

March 16, 2023

Lent has progressed just long enough for most of us to have broken at least one of our penitential resolutions. Perhaps we have indulged in a formerly renounced glass of wine. Paradoxically, in the very act of breaking such a resolution, we are once again confronted with the deeper meaning of Lent: death leads to