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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 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 ...

The Catholic Herald

The hymn buried under centuries of rubbish

the city of oxyrhynchus is in central egypt, south of cairo, west of the nile, and bears its greek name from the time of alexander the great...

Michael Duggan

Film: Is this the weirdest God movie ever made?

the initial wave of faith-based movies – those medium-to-low budget dramas boosted by evangelical word of mouth – diminished quickly in the ...

Mike McCahill

Television: A drama that grasps the Church’s mystery

catholicism runs right through the writing of jimmy mcgovern. sometimes it’s a seam of gold, other times it’s poison. the movie priest (1994...

Tim Stanley

Music: Eschatological opera ends without a bang

describing the end of the world in music is no small deal. wagner took 16 hours spread over four nights when he tried in the ring cycle. jon...

Michael White

Martyrdoms that could rival any horror film

the burning time by virginia rounding, macmillan, £20 as a child, deeply affected by stories of vampires and suchlike, i once tapped the wis...

Simon Caldwell

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