The typical tale told by Protestant apologists is that the Catholic Church in England at the end of the Middle Ages was all but dead. The people longed for a simple, Bible-based religion free of all ...

The Catholic Trust for England and Wales, the legal entity for the bishops’ conference, will receive almost $4 million from the Heritage Stimulus Fund. Interior shot of University Church of St Mary ...

Official opening of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Leicester, England, April 9, 2015. (Credit: Catholic Church England and Wales.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Data newly released shows that ...

The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy. Not long after came another episode of agitation and unrest, less familiar ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) "In some respects I feel very calm," said Kieran Conry. "It is liberating. It is a relief." But it may not be the end of the matter for the former Roman Catholic leader.

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – If anything symbolized the conflicts in the Church in the post-Vatican II world, it was Pope St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. When the pontiff reaffirmed the ...

‘PATRIOTISM is the religion of the English’ — that epigram, applied to any English problem, gives you the core of its truth. Applied singly to any individual matter, — especially the matter which I ...

According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the chalice used at the Last Supper when he came to England in 63 A.D., about 30 years after the Crucifixion. That chalice set the stage for the ...

In this undated photo, G.K. Chesterton, left, receives an honorary degree from Holy Cross Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., then president of the University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, ...