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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...

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...

Briefly noted

catholicism: a very short introduction by gerald o’collins (oxford university press, £7.99) . this is a fully updated, second edition of thi...

Martyrdoms that could rival any horror film

Virginia Rounding's account of Henry VIII's sadism is unremittingly gory but scholarly and well-written, says Simon Caldwell

Will anyone rein in the IVF industry?

Women are being persuaded to donate or 'share' their eggs in return for cheaper IVF treatment. But the personal cost can be high

Philippa Taylor

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