Paolo Gambi, Author at Catholic Herald

Paolo Gambi

Schism, the Old Mass and Pope Francis: an interview with Andrea Riccardi

January 23, 2020

Andrea Riccardi is the founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, an influential lay association active in more than 70 countries. He has been a history professor for many decades and served as minister for international cooperation without portfolio in Italy’s Monti Cabinet (2011-2013). In 2017 it was rumoured that Pope Francis planned to name him

‘I am a failed Catholic, but still a Catholic’: An interview with poet Adam Zagajewski

January 09, 2020

Adam Zagajewski is without doubt one of the greatest living poets, not only because he has received many of world’s top literary prizes but also because his words truly open a door onto infinity. Born in Lvov (then a Polish city, now in western Ukraine) in 1945, he became one of the leadings poets of

‘Being a model is only a job. Being Catholic is part of your soul’: an interview with Paula Manzanal

August 24, 2018

The former Miss Peru describes the 'miracle' that saved her unborn baby

Alfie Evans brought Italians together in a way few others could

May 01, 2018

The Alfie Evans case was big news in Italy, a country that values family above all

The spirituality of skiing

February 13, 2018

Paolo Gambi talks to several skiers about how the mountains influence their spiritual side

Here’s why I’m not worried about the Pope answering the dubia

December 20, 2017

We have already sailed through very difficult storms throughout our history

‘Perhaps we have arrived at the End Times’: an interview with Cardinal Burke

November 30, 2017

Cardinal Raymond Burke talks division, the End Times and what he would do if elected Pope

‘It’s Christ who keeps us together’

November 30, 2017

Cardinal Raymond Burke has been much in the news this past year. In November 2016, he and three other cardinals presented Pope Francis with the famous dubia – five questions regarding Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia. Then the American cardinal became embroiled in a power struggle within the Order of Malta, of

Our ill-starred love affair with modernity

November 23, 2017

Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness by Peter Kwasniewski, Angelico, 317pp, £16 Why are Catholic churches becoming empty? I have spent years trying to find an answer. Then, while reading this book, I realised that it is actually very simple: it is just a matter of liturgy. The Old Mass puts God at the centre; the modern

St Paul’s lesson for 21st-century Malta

May 11, 2017

Malta seems to be tailor-made for those who, like me, can’t help wondering if and how one can remain fully Catholic in this era of globalisation. Malta is the last European country, perhaps together with Poland, where Catholicism remains a significant part of its national identity. Article 2 of its constitution states: “The religion of

The Knights have had painful clashes with the Vatican before. They can survive this too

January 27, 2017

The difficulties of the 1950s, recorded in a celebrated novel, have many parallels to today

Yes, the Old Mass is ‘rigid’ – that’s one reason us young people love it

December 01, 2016

It's beautiful, utterly Catholic and uncompromising

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