Our selection of the top Catholic leaders in the realms of arts and writing in 2022

Our selection of the top Catholic leaders in the realms of education and academia in 2022

Our selection of the top Catholic leaders in the realms of law and politics in 2022

Everyone on the list demonstrates again that at a time when public life has become increasingly secularised, religion still has a major role to play in British life

By Hugh Kerr The Vatican has made known that Pope Francis recently gave a condemnation of online pornography to a collection of priests and seminarians in Rome, calling soft pornography a temptation and warning that “the devil enters from there: it weakens the priestly heart”. On Wednesday, the Vatican published a transcript that detailed the 86-year-old Pontiff’s comprehensive responses

Our selection of the top Catholic leaders in the realm of the media in 2022

The suggestion by IICSA that the Seal of Confession is violable misunderstands its essence, writes Fr Richard Whinder The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, has recommended a new law requiring anyone working with children to report allegations of sexual abuse to the police,

By Simon May “King Loses Truss,” the news sheets make report. Thus- “dear oh dear”, the Carolean Court, Impartially salutes (‘mid other banes) That mighty work of straddling two reigns! “Capax imperii? ” needs conscience tacit To supplement with “nisi imperasset“. Yes, Pluvius baptised her Number Ten, But what then grew was green, and green again. A loyal friend was banished from Eleven, Destined to oppose a Hunt-struck Heaven. New fundaments were caused to grace the bench (Some second Braverman to woo the French); All she “delivered”

JRR Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, is arguably the most read book in the world today. It is also a myth infused by the author’s deep Catholic understanding, imagination and faith. In this 22nd episode of the Merely Catholic, the podcast series for The Catholic Herald, Dr Gavin Ashenden talks to Tolkien aficionado Ferdie Rous,

A serious and important measure was passed by the Commons amid the psychodrama of Liz Truss’s unravelling premiership. It was an amendment to the public order bill, which banned pro-life campaigners from assembling within 150 metres of an abortion clinic. It would threaten with a six month sentence not only those who harass those providing

Conrad Black Broadcaster and commentator Conrad Black, 78, is a Canadian-born British businessman who, in the 1990s, built Hollinger International which was once the world’s third-largest English-language newspaper empire. Although Canadian, Black’s brilliant and prolific US journalism and books make him an honorary literary citizen. Raised in an atheistic family, it took time for Black

The American Church has spoken. To put it another way, the local and diocesan responses in the US to the pope’s call for a global synod have been brought together and the findings published as a synthesis which will be submitted to the final stages of the synodal process. No fewer than 700,000 of the 66.8