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Never forget the bloody horrors of the English Reformation

March 03, 2023

Martin Luther was a theologian. If you read the Ninety-Five Theses he reputedly tacked up on the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in October 1517, it is clear his interest lay in the nature of sin, repentance, absolution, penance and salvation. Whatever else his wider agenda was – or became – his initial arguments were presented

The Surrender upon Sex: a critique of the Church of England

February 08, 2023

As the Church of England considers reassessing gendered language in reference to God, GK Chesterton's timeless commentary hits the mark

The last of Henry’s wives

May 01, 2021

Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife, by Alison Weir, reviewed by Linda Porter

Never forget the bloody horrors of the English Reformation

October 26, 2017

Amid celebrations of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, we should remember the mass persecutions of 16thC England

Martyrdoms that could rival any horror film

June 08, 2017

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

Tudor mansion offers audio experience of Mass as Henry VIII would have heard it

March 27, 2017

The Vyne is broadcasting a reconstruction of a 16th-century Mass

A brilliant novel helps make sense of the dissolution of the monasteries

November 04, 2016

Lucy Beckett's conversion to Catholicism helped inspire her novel about the Reformation

The great Tudor Bible myth

October 27, 2016

To this day many believe that the Catholic Church refused to give people the Bible and religious instruction in English