Ned Donovan, Author at Catholic Herald

Ned Donovan

‘We are all Sri Lankans’: A defiant mood in Colombo

May 02, 2019

The mercury was touching 40°C (104°F) and the air so humid I felt like a wet towel seconds after stepping out of the car. Yet still hundreds gathered alongside me keeping vigil outside the wreckage of St Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo. A ring of armed police and commandos stopped us getting close to the church

The bishops who’ve never seen their dioceses

October 04, 2018

For centuries, the Vatican has relied on the legal fiction of titular sees. Their history is more fraught than you might expect

Bishops who’ve never seen their dioceses

October 04, 2018

For centuries, the Vatican has relied on the legal fiction of titular sees. Their history is more fraught than you might expect Thala in Tunisia is not a remarkable city by any means. Nestled in the mountains, the North African country’s highest town – and its almost entirely Muslim population – was probably unaware that

Archbishop of chaos

August 30, 2018

Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục left havoc in his wake, both in Vietnamese politics and the Spanish-speaking Church It’s 1981 and the penitents of Toulon Cathedral rattle through their sins. In return, a disembodied voice from the other side of the confessional’s impenetrable grille gives a penance, and the newly absolved parishioners vanish, heading back to

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