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Book review: Faith, family and a good skirmish

April 30, 2015

Nancy Bileau's novel doesn't airbrush the venality and violence of Henry VIII's court

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/04/15

April 22, 2015

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Wolf Hall reminds us that beheadings solve nothing

February 27, 2015

The final episode of Wolf Hall was uncomfortable to watch

Book used by Henry VIII’s lawyers in break with Rome found in Cornwall library

February 25, 2015

The copy of work on the theories of William of Ockham was found in a National Trust building

TV review: Henry VIII receives a BBC makeover

February 19, 2015

The king is suspiciously slim in BBC Two's blockbuster Wolf Hall

Bishops criticise ‘perverse’ depiction of St Thomas More in Wolf Hall

February 02, 2015

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

January 20, 2015

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?

February 11, 2014

Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows

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