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A Perception Of Evil Amid The Symbols Of Hope
Page 3 from 22nd December 1989T HIS year a series of totally unrelated events forced itself on my attention. A dear friend of ours called to tell us that her daughter, a woman......
Contemplating The Darkness
Page 4 from 15th October 1999We publish this article, which first appeared in The Catholic Herald, as a tribute to Morris West, who died last week. In his fiction, West was......
When Books On Astronomy Were Best-sellers
Page 13 from 8th April 1938Christian Philosophy Set Science On Its Way By Dr. W. R. Thompson, F.R.S. 0 TJR technical superiority over the people of the Middle Ages is so......
Crying For The Moon
Page 4 from 18th September 1959T HE Soviet achievement in being the first country to land a tiny piece of our own world on the moon is, doubtless, a remarkable sign of scientific......
Norman Mailer: 'god Told Me Not To Pay For Coffee'
Page 13 from 21st March 2008The great American novelist was a wildly eccentric believer who claimed that God personally instructed him to ignore society's petty injunctions,......
A Global And Personal Covenant Of Compassion
Page 9 from 1st May 1998I T WAS A schoolboy prank that led Fr Gerard Hughes to begin questioning the relationship between faith and life. He was teaching at Stonyhurst......
The Savage Eloquence Of Saint Augustine
Page 16 from 11th August 2006By Peter Mullen C atholic Herald readers don't miss a theological trick. Sharpeyed Mrs Eileen JoIliffe sent me a newspaper article in which it was......
Doubts
Page 10 from 9th February 2001queries Father Richard Barrett answers readers' questions My local vicar has urged the youth group in the parish to read CS Lewis as a guide to......
Where The Mother Of God Goes, We Must Follow
Page 6 from 15th August 2003If we see the Assumption as a purely spiritual event we will never grasp its significance for our own lives, argues philosopher Laurence Paul......
Confronting Death In An Age Of `horrorisrn'
Page 15 from 1st December 2006If Martin Amis wants to be considered Britain's leading novelist then he is going to have to start delivering some first-rate fiction, says Matt......