Tom Hoopes, Author at Catholic Herald

Tom Hoopes

Fr Jubani survived jail and torture. But nothing prepared him for Hollywood

August 29, 2019

Fr Simon Jubani (pronounced: “you-bonnie”) spent much of his adult life in solitary confinement in an Albanian prison cell, where he was regularly tortured for his faith. But he told me California was worse. “You are my Virgil,” Fr Jubani said at the end of our long weekend, referring to Dante’s guide in the Divine

At 17, a brush with guns, drugs and death saved my soul

July 25, 2019

I was introduced to guns, drugs, and death when I was 17, and it saved my soul. I was baptised on July 20, 1969 – the day Americans landed on the moon. By the time I was 17, the moon landing and my baptism had a lot in common in my mind: • They were

The Holy Father and the Our Father

May 09, 2018

Our Father by Pope Francis, Rider, 144pp, £9.99 Key Words of Pope Francis by Cindy Wooden and Joshua McElwee, Bloomsbury, 224pp, £10.99 Two new books reveal the secret to Pope Francis’s popularity: it’s all about the Gospels. The first does this with the words of the Holy Father himself. Our Father is a conversation between

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