Nicholas Farrell, Author at Catholic Herald

Nicholas Farrell

RIP Berlusconi, Europe’s first modern populist leader

June 14, 2023

(ROME) Silvio Berlusconi was given the very rare honour of a state funeral today (Wednesday) in the Duomo of his beloved Milan. Outside the cathedral, thousands gathered in the piazza to watch the service, presided over by the Archbishop of Milan Mario Delpini, on huge television screens. Il Cavaliere (The Knight), as they called him,

Diary: My wife has imposed Catholicism on the family – which is fine by me

March 28, 2019

Carla, my beautiful Italian wife and the mother of our six young children, is what I call a Catholic fundamentalist. She believes abortion is murder and goes to Mass several times a week. But unlike more mainstream conservative Catholics, she will not hear a word said against Pope Francis. I met her 20 years ago

Italy is now governed by rosary-wielding populists – but will it last?

June 14, 2018

Can the coalition between the Catholic-friendly Lega and the socially liberal Five Star survive?

Italy’s rosary-wielding populists

June 14, 2018

My much younger Italian wife, Carla, mother of our six small children, is a Catholic fundamentalist. She showed no signs of this when I met her 20 years ago but – so I joke – in order to cope with me she had no alternative. At Italy’s last elections, on March 4, she stood as

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