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The Church and the Crown: Catholicism and the English Monarchy
May 05, 2023
After four and a half centuries, is all at last forgiven? In East Hendred in Oxfordshire a Catholic church and presbytery sit opposite each other across a pretty country lane. It is not necessarily a unique scene in England (the Throckmortons had a similar arrangement at Buckland), but it is relatively rare. The Eystons have
The King’s coronation oath: an explainer for Catholics
May 02, 2023
The Order of Service for the Coronation of King Charles on Saturday is now available online, and a very interesting read it is. The central element is obviously the anointing of the King, but there’s much else of interest there. I especially commend the bit about the presentation of the Regalia, whereby peers of non-Christian
Pope Francis gives King Charles ‘relic of the True cross’ as coronation gift
April 20, 2023
Pope Francis has given King Charles ‘a relic of the True Cross’ as a coronation gift.  Fragments said to be from the cross on which Jesus was crucified have been incorporated into the newly-made Cross of Wales which will be used at the head of the coronation procession in Westminster Abbey on 6 May. The
The problem with a multi-faith coronation
April 12, 2023
When one of my previous bosses, a university vice-chancellor, wanted to show his contempt for a problem, he would dismiss it as a “theological” issue. I always thought this showed a lack of a grasp of both history as well as theology, but then he was an economist.  Coronations usually throw up political problems. This one
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
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