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A newly discovered fragment of papyrus suggests Jesus was married. But can we trust the document, and was Mary Magdalene the lady in question?
The Literary Review awards highlight the steamiest and most excruciating writing of the year.
Fans of Joseph Heller’s novel <em>Catch-22 </em>may be surprised to learn that the author actually enjoyed his military service during World War II.
When Pope Benedict XVI sat down with a German journalist, he probably never imagined that his cautious remarks about condoms would spark excitement.
Joker in foreign office forces a grovelling official apology to a defensive Catholic Church.
A group of leading Southern Baptists has denounced the denomination’s stance on global warming as ”too timid”. Its cautious response to the environment is seen around the world…
When he went down from Oxford for the Christmas holiday Bilawal Bhutto was just another undergraduate fresher, posting his picture at a Halloween party on Facebook. Recently, on…
Protestant churches reacted with dismay to a new declaration approved by Pope Benedict XVI insisting they are mere ”ecclesial communities” and their ministers effectively phonies…
After being reviled for more than 2 000 years as the embodiment of treachery, Judas Iscariot’s side of the story was finally published last week. Thanks to a newly discovered…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that…
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, faced the gravest threat to his authority as leader of the worldwide Anglican communion on Wednesday night, as nearly half the…
The extraordinary scenes in Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II disguised the problems that his successor, Joseph Ratzinger — now Benedict XVI, the sixth German pontiff —…
As hopes that the next pope will come from Africa were increasingly dismissed as unlikely last week, and Nigeria’s Cardinal Francis Arinze was criticised as not being a strong…
An African bishop has announced that he will not accept more than 000 of funding to help Aids victims in his area because it comes from an American diocese that supported the…
Jackson Nzerebende Tembo, the Bishop of South Rwenzori in Uganda, has rejected funding from the United States diocese of Central Pennsylvania, saying its clergy and bishop,…
North American bishops will cut off funds from the Anglican Church in Africa if they are disciplined for supporting the election of a gay bishop. This warning is due to be…
The leader of the United States Episcopal Church told Ugandan Anglican bishops on Friday to keep out of its affairs after three Los Angeles parishes decided to ally themselves…
A funny thing is happening within the Anglican communion. It is threatening to tear itself apart over a handful of people who live in monogamous, stable, long-term, loving…
Pope John Paul II has named 37 new cardinals in an attempt to sway the choice of his successor.
