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Cardinal Wolsey’s angels to be purchased by V&A

February 09, 2015

The museum has raised the £5 million required to buy the four bronze statues created for the cardinal's tomb

The priestly ‘hit squad’ that uplifted England

February 05, 2015

It is important that Catholics learn about what really caused England's break with Rome

In the three-parent embryo debate, why is it assumed that scientists are always neutral and benign?

February 04, 2015

We have come to think that all scientific breakthroughs and discoveries must be viewed as 'progress'

Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/11/13

November 25, 2013

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

A sad reminder of the art lost in the years after the Reformation

October 08, 2013

A new exhibition at Tate Britain highlights the scale of destruction to artworks in the Tudor period - a staggering amount of books and music were also destroyed

Like Richard III, Henry VII’s reputation is sullied by the disappearance of the two princes

September 26, 2013

There is no evidence of endowments set up to pay for prayers for the princes - Henry may have been scared of inspiring a religious cult

The bodies might be gone but the Tudor appetite for desecration still chills the blood

September 17, 2013

The fate of James IV of Scots seems to point to a tradition that left the Tudors inured to the mistreatment of the dead

I was wrong and uncharitable to suggest that the Pope should not be meeting Archbishop Welby. But about our relationship with Anglicanism I got it right

June 14, 2013

Above all, ARCIC is the institutionalisation of the indifferentism which has so weakened faith in the parishes since the Sixties