This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper explores ways in which the identity of the secular priesthood in England and Wales has been shaped by its particular historical ...

“The Protestant Reformation, which we think of now very much as an historical fact, was a live one for them. It was impossible to be a Catholic in England, and particularly for priests and for ...

Alexandra Walsham, INVISIBLE HELPERS: ANGELIC INTERVENTION IN POST-REFORMATION ENGLAND, Past & Present, No. 208 (AUGUST 2010), pp. 77-130 ...

Newman was canonised by Pope Francis in 2019, after the Vatican attributed two miracles to the former cardinal. In doing so, the then pontiff made Newman the first English saint since the Forty ...

In the popular imagination, the Norman Conquest of 1066 is often depicted as a catastrophic event for England, marking the end of an era of freedom and the imposition of foreign rule. However, a ...