“the pope doesn’t have to be a great theologian – but he has to be in tune with the zeitgeist”

I “I’M TICKED,” SAYS JOHN PREVOST, THE RETIRED Midwestern high school principal who is now, abruptly and without warning, globally famous and in demand. “I didn’t want to be, but I’m so angry.” He’s s

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

Danny Bird What made you decide to write about the collapse of the western Roman empire and the rise of Christianity? Alice Roberts I’ve long been fascinated by this historical period, especially in B

FOR HELEN LEWIS, THERE IS A “POLITICAL message ...

That threatened thrones

Without England’s most notorious Tudor king, the country’s religious and political history would’ve looked very different