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The best of the blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online the devil is more than a symbol in his column for the archdiocese of philadelphia website, archbishop char...
Staff writers
Pope prays for healing after London attack
pope francis prayed for the victims of the terrorist attack in london at the end of mass on pentecost sunday. “may the holy spirit grant pea...
Staff writers
Manchester ‘has yet to grieve fully’ over bombing
the people of manchester have yet to grieve fully for the 22 people murdered by an islamist suicide bomber, the bishop of salford has said. ...
Staff writers
Pope celebrates Pentecost with charismatics
pope francis celebrated a pentecost vigil on saturday with 50,000 catholic charismatics and pentecostals from more than 125 countries. the p...
Staff writers
Jesuit leader suggests the Devil is symbolic
christians have “formed” the devil as a way of expressing evil, the jesuit superior general has said. in an interview with spanish newspaper...
Staff writers
Ukraine’s ‘wise father’ dies at 84
cardinal lubomyr husar, known as the “spiritual father” of ukraine, has died aged 84. cardinal husar had inherited a church “on its knees, s...
Staff writers
In brief
papal trip to south sudan is postponed pope francis’s proposed trip to south sudan with justin welby, the archbishop of canterbury, has been...
Staff Reporter
Is there really an old mass revival?
at any time between the 1960s and about a decade ago, it would have seemed an unlikely occasion: an english bishop conferring the sacrament ...
Dan Hitchens
Cardinal Sarah: Criticisms of Benedict XVI are 'diabolical'
The cardinal said some criticisms of the former pope's preface to his latest book were 'diabolical and cover the Church with a mantle of sadness and shame'
Nick Hallett
Jenny McCartney: There’s more to Westminster than greasers and fixers
it was louis heren, a foreign correspondent for the times, who said – in words famously cited by jeremy paxman – that when a politician told...
Jenny McCartney
There really is an alternative to IVF
the first “ivf baby”, louise brown, will be 40 next year. a quarter of a million children have now been born as a result of in vitro fertili...
Elizabeth Howard
Will anyone rein in the IVF industry?
fertility clinics love to line their walls with photographs of beautiful newborn babies, their “success stories”. ivf has enabled babies to ...
Philippa Taylor
The friars shaking up internet radio
"go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”: the bible is consistent in its message that it is our duty to spread the wo...
Constance Watson
The loneliness of the long-term carer
by john and anne duddington we all know the story of the paralytic man brought to jesus as told in mark 2:1-4. however, if we read it carefu...
John Duddington
William Cash: Campaigning brings out the inner schoolboy
former mps standing for re-election are a rare sight in central london during a general election campaign. they are even rarer this time aro...
William Cash
Book extract: Julia Samuel's Grief Works
listening be a friend who is prepared to give their time, to listen and to acknowledge the extent of your friend’s loss. listening is the ke...
Julia Samuel
Why grieving is good for you
when prince harry recently spoke about his own mental health in the wake of his mother’s death, i wondered if the therapist and writer julia...
Rachel Kelly
Mary Kenny: What Tatler gets wrong about dinner parties
polite society during my parents’ lifetime deemed that nice people did not discuss politics or religion when guests were present. “how stuff...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the week
don’t jump to conclusions on medjugorje sir – a few points regarding the letter on medjugorje from dp collins (june 2). first, he speaks of ...
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