What was behind the Anglican Reformation? What was it that transformed that nation’s religion and politics in the 14 th through the 16 th centuries? Cranmer scholar Ashley Null says it was “the power ...

While the Catholic Church is deeply divided over what I call the Pope’s liberal Protestantism, and more and more evangelicals are embracing a progressivism that resembles yesterday’s social gospel, ...

The Anglican Church, which stems from the Protestant Reformation, is one of the most prominent Christian traditions in the world. Moreover, its adherents have often exerted tremendous social and ...

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, ...

Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran leaders in England united to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, pledging to work for a deeper unity between the divided denominations. "We recall, with ...

The public meltdown of the world's third largest Christian body, the Anglican Communion, has attracted considerable attention, but little understanding. Catholics, if they have noticed the meltdown at ...

SINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesthood, disenchanted individual members of the 80m-strong worldwide Anglican Communion have been quietly converting to Roman ...

LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant ...

Few would deny that the Anglican Communion is in crisis. The nature of that crisis, however, remains a question. Is it about sexuality? Is it a crisis of authority who has it and who doesn’t? Have ...