Steve Larkin, Author at Catholic Herald

Steve Larkin

The strange allure of Marianne Williamson

September 05, 2019

The Democratic primary is what might be generously called a clown show. There are candidates with a serious chance of winning the nomination, and then there are candidates motivated by some combination of self-aggrandisement and the promise of increased book sales and more television appearances. I am, to my dismay, forced to admit that Marianne

Beyond the news cycle, state-level abuse inquiries go on

August 08, 2019

Complaining about the speed of the news cycle – every issue will be relevant for 15 minutes – is nothing new. And perhaps it is misleading: things would fade from memory quickly anyway. But the news cycle is certainly ill-suited for covering lengthy projects initiated by large and generally slow-moving organizations, like the Church and

Can boycott threats force dioceses to be financially transparent?

July 21, 2019

Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, in his capacity as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia, announced on July 17 that he would take a number of steps to investigate and improve the management of the finances of that diocese, including a full audit. The audit was a demand made by

What’s the point of Catholic high schools?

July 18, 2019

Somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the English classes, the hundreds of extracurricular activities, and all the other things that take up most of a high schooler’s time at school – the Catholic high school has to fit in the Catholicism. I went to a

The man who brought Italian piety to London

July 04, 2019

Catholic piety is far too wide a topic for me to say anything particularly useful about it in general. In any case, my experience of it in suburban America has been that, if anything, it is decorous and restrained. And so I was struck by a passage in Ronald Chapman’s biography of Fr Frederick William

Meritocracy has failed the underclass

June 13, 2019

Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America By Chris Arnade Sentinel, 304pp, £25/$18 Books featuring battles between the shift manager at a McDonald’s and people attempting to get free ice and soda from the machine on a hot day are rare. At first, reading about it is charming – behold the indomitable human spirit, devising

‘We can change things one life at a time’: pro-life centres provide homes for women in need

August 16, 2018

Chris Bell founded Good Counsel to help women in crisis pregnancy

Young adults worldwide less religious than older adults, Pew report says

June 20, 2018

However, more religious populations are growing faster

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