Hilary Mantel
Book used by Henry VIII’s lawyers in break with Rome found in Cornwall library
The copy of work on the theories of William of Ockham was found in a National Trust building
In the three-parent embryo debate, why is it assumed that scientists are always neutral and benign?
We have come to think that all scientific breakthroughs and discoveries must be viewed as ‘progress’
Bishops criticise ‘perverse’ depiction of St Thomas More in Wolf Hall
Bishop Mark Davies says ‘one of the greatest Englishmen’ has been presented as ‘a scheming villain’
Admiring Thomas Cromwell is a respectable way of expressing anti-Catholic feeling
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall propagates the myth that Britain became great once it had ditched Catholicism
Should we care that Hilary Mantel is anti-Catholic?
Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows
Can Catholics cope with the popularity inspired by Pope Francis?
The widespread appeal of Pope Francis, named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2013, must not be wasted
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel
The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history
A 21st-century Evelyn Waugh shows the flaws of the Enlightenment
AN Wilson’s first novel for five years is a major event
The Catholic Church is not a place for respectable people
As Mother Teresa of Calcutta showed, the Church is for the unloved and the rejected
