Rabbi David Rosen referred to accusations that, as a youth, Pope Benedict voluntarily joined the Hitler Youth movement, as 'rubbish'.

The designate as Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Justin Welby, was once an oil company executive.

Drawing a line connecting Elizabethan England to Obama's America: Faith vrs the Sovereign State.

While the EU Convention on Human Rights does not compel states to grant same-sex marriage, in those states that do allow it, churches refusing to celebrate them would thus be engaging in illegal discrimination.

Cities as disparate as Moscow and Edinburg reveal their Christian roots in their lay out.

For being a priest, Robert Southwell was hung by the neck and disemboweled, before having his body chopped into quarters in view of a marveling crowd in 1592 London. Sic transit gloria mundi.

A dead king and thirsty dogs bear testimony to a Biblical adage.

Coming from well-to-do, political and social parents, Manning became an Anglican priest and married a beautiful woman. He later became a Catholic champion of England's poor and workers.

When is a vicar not a vicar? The Guardian's coverage of the "midnight mass brawl" at a Southampton Catholic church.

The enthronement of a boy as a bishop for day is an ancient tradition that deserves consideration, if only as a memento mori for sitting bishops.

Santa Claus is real! "Let us all exult together, as with one united voice, we upon his solemn feast-day in St Nicholas rejoice!

St. Edmund Campion is celebrated for his defense of conscience as martyr of the Catholic Church. Another Englishman, Henry Walpole, was transformed as he witnessed Campions bloody death.

Pocahontas, before she married John Rolfe, was kidnapped and held for ransom by the English. She was later baptized, but died young in England.

Boyfriend about to ask Pippa for marriage with a Diane von Furstenburg engagement ring.