Edward Short, Author at Catholic Herald

Edward Short

An English Catholic hero: a very short biography of John Henry Newman

October 10, 2019

John Henry Newman was born in London at 80 Old Bond Street on February 21, 1801. His father, John Newman, was a private banker in the City of London, the son of a Mayfair grocer, originally of Cambridgeshire. His mother, Jemima (née Fourdrinier), was the daughter of a printer of Norman Huguenot stock, whose family

The religious roots of popular discontent

January 18, 2018

Where We Are by Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury, 237pp, £16.99 In his overview of where Britain finds itself in the wake of the Brexit vote, Roger Scruton sets out to answer what will unify the country, “as a single people subject to a single law”, now that it has disenthralled itself from the European Union. Consequently,

An admirable riposte to Resurrection sceptics

June 09, 2016

Why the Resurrection Matters by Carl Olson Ignatius Press, £10.70 “Good Friday,” the poet WH Auden once said, “is easy to accept: what scandalises us is Easter. Modern man finds a happy ending, a final victory of Love over the Prince of this World very hard to swallow.” In his new book, subtitled Did Jesus

An admirable riposte to Resurrection sceptics

June 09, 2016

Book review: Why the Resurrection Matters by Carl Olson

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