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King Henry VIII

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

The saint with Aristotle on his finger

December 22, 2016

The next time someone claims that the 16th-century English Church was backward and superstitious, tell them about this ring

Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/02/16

February 10, 2016

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

Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/01/16

January 07, 2016

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

Letters from the Synod: October 21

October 21, 2015

Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Letters from the Synod: special edition, October 10, 2015

October 10, 2015

Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Congratulations to Hilary Mantel

October 17, 2012

The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history

Why do we have such an appetite for the Tudors?

June 01, 2011

Posters of Katherine Howard are everywhere, advertising yet another Tudor novel

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