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Catholic who died saving a woman's life at London Bridge hailed as a hero

Friends say that Ignacio Echeverria, who attacked a terrorist with a skateboard, was deeply committed to his faith

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✣   seven killed in islamist attack on london what happened? seven people died and 48 were injured in an attack by three islamist terro...

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✣ highlights from the week online the devil is more than a symbol in his column for the archdiocese of philadelphia website, archbishop char...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...