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‘The Stripping of the Altars’, 30 years on

March 30, 2022

Thirty years is a long shelf life for any historical work, and perhaps especially so for a historical work self-consciously designed as a challenge to received opinion. For all its bulk, The Stripping of the Altars is a polemic, written to contest the account of the English Reformation canonised in a long interpretative tradition that

The great Tudor Bible myth

October 27, 2016

To this day many believe that the Catholic Church refused to give people the Bible and religious instruction in English

A leap across the great divide

October 27, 2016

Thanks to astonishing ecumenical advances, Catholics can recognise – and even give thanks for – the witness of Martin Luther

Get thee from the nunnery

October 26, 2016

The Reformation may have caused women's religious roles to be set back centuries

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

July 28, 2016

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

What in the end is the point of relics?

November 20, 2013

To hate relics is to hate the historicity of the Incarnation

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