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Stuart Reid

Stuart Reid was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and went to Ampleforth. Since 2008 he has been writing the Charterhouse column for the Catholic Herald. He was deputy editor of the Spectator under Boris Johnson.

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• If Britain is the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death, where do we put North Korea and China?

  Friday, September 3rd, 2010

  Exaggeration does us no favours in the abortion debate

• Gay people who try to follow Church teaching may have more to weep about than the rest of us

  Friday, August 27th, 2010

  In March I received a sobering letter taking issue with the attitude of some Catholics to gays

• The Americans are leaving Iraq – but the war goes on

  Monday, August 23rd, 2010

  Perhaps now the US will end its policy of intervention in order to make future Iraqs impossible

• Are crazy Christians crazier than crazy atheists?

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

  Militant atheists seem less likely than Christians to fall for wackadoo conspiracy theories

• Cardinal O’Brien is right: there is a vengeance culture in the US

  Monday, August 9th, 2010

  The American way with criminals is at times barbaric. Take the case of Ronnie Lee Gardner, executed by firing squad after 25 years of near-solitary confinement

• Let’s stop hissing and spitting over the Pope’s visit

  Friday, July 30th, 2010

  The Holy Father’s trip to Britain will be miserable for everyone if we don’t change our tone

• Please, let’s not be victims of hate crime

  Friday, July 23rd, 2010

  The Protect the Pope website seems to present Catholics as a ‘victim group’. But let’s keep our dignity, and not whine about our rights

• So the Pope says the old Mass privately? Well, probably not

  Monday, July 19th, 2010

  The Vatican seems to have denied the story in 2007. Plus, there is footage of the Pope celebrating Mass, in the Ordinary Form, in his private chapel

• Leave Roman Polanski to the justice and mercy of God

  Friday, July 16th, 2010

  The victim of his crime, Samantha Geimer, wants the case dropped. To bang him up would be cruel and vengeful

• An influx of Anglo-Catholics will add to the divisions of the Church

  Thursday, July 15th, 2010

  We may be about to witness the first fruits of Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum coetibus. But not everyone is rejoicing