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God Save the (agnostic) King! But can the monarchy survive a non-religious future ‘Defender of the Faith’?

January 22, 2024

When Henry VIII decided to solve his dynastic succession problem by sacking the Pope, he had to put aside the somewhat inconvenient fact that his people had been Catholic for at least a thousand years; 1,300 if you go back to St Alban. The price paid for his quest for a legitimate male heir was the destruction

Defenders of the Faith: The British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation

January 02, 2023

Catherine Pepinster Hodder and Stoughton, £25, 352 pages On October 11, 1521 Leo X con-ferred the title Fidei Defensor on Henry VIII for his pious refutation – in his book Asserto septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum – of the troublesome German’s radical “95 Theses”. When Henry’s marital requirements occasioned his own break with Rome, he

Archbishop Nichols: Royal baby is a source of joy for Britain

July 23, 2013

Archbishop assures Prince William and Kate of the prayers and best wishes of the Catholic Church

MP says succession Bill is an ‘attack’ on Catholic Church

January 25, 2013

Jacob Rees-Mogg says he will try to amend the Bill to allow Catholics to become monarch

Something in the British psyche demands the magic of monarchy

June 07, 2012

We'll even borrow one from abroad rather than become republican