Catherine Lafferty, Author at Catholic Herald

Catherine Lafferty

June 12, 2020

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. So wrote the poet Claude McKay during the so-called red summer of 1919, when gangs of white supremacists attacked African Americans in

Who wants the Catholic vote?

December 05, 2019

There are approximately a million practising Catholics in England and Wales, many of whom are among the older generation. As a demographic group, this is one which might be characterised by its conscientiousness: practising Catholics are more serious about their religion than non-practising Catholics, and older voters are much more likely to cast their ballots

‘Rot in hell, Pell’: Amid the rage, was a fair trial possible?

March 01, 2019

The last thing a raging fire burning out of control needs is for a jet of petrol to be sprayed on it. But Cardinal George Pell’s defence counsel, Robert Richter QC, did exactly that at his client’s sentencing hearing on Wednesday. If Cardinal Pell was guilty, it was of a “plain vanilla sexual penetration case

‘The pro-life lobby got into a real mess’

October 20, 2011

The improbable MP Louise Mensch tells Catherine Lafferty why she is taking a pragmatic approach to reforming our abortion laws

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