During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War. Very few church paintings survived.

Ahead of the Church of England's General Synod, the Archbishop of Canterbury may be preparing a statement expected to call for repentance for the violence of the English Reformation. "As the Church of ...

A week after Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Scotland and England and its historical significance is still reverberating. The first state visit by a Pope to Britain was remarkable in many different ways, ...

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 new film "Faith of Our Fathers" examines the Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation, whose fortitude is a reminder that persecution strengthens the Church, a presenter of the film has noted. ...

The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 623-632 (10 pages) Largely because of Mantuan's attacks on corruption in the Papal Curia, his poems were used as corroborative texts ...

One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English printer Robert Barker produced an edition of the scriptures which became known as the “Wicked Bible.” ...

Seanchas Ard Mhacha is a journal devoted to the publication of new research on the history of the Archdiocese of Armagh. Founded in 1953, it has been to the forefront of the renaissance in study in ...

We've been much reminded of Tudor England lately. The Sunday Telegraph recently reported the former prime minister's conversion to Roman Catholicism, alongside news that, as a result of domestic ...

Almost 500 years have passed since Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-five Theses and launched the Protestant Reformation. Shot on location at key Reformation sites throughout Europe and featuring more ...

In October 1517, some five hundred years ago, Martin Luther defiantly nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg Castle church and, in the process, gave birth to the ...