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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...