There follows a review of the changing religious climate: of Wolsey's attempts at reform, of the all-perspective influence of Erasmus and of the career of Elizabeth Barton. The economic state of the ...

8 and released by the Vatican press office a week later. Addressed specifically to "the superiors of religious orders, the legal representatives of church entities, pastors and the clergy," the pope's ...

Subsequently, the religious orders who had run them refused – to no one’s surprise – to make any contribution to the redress scheme. There is much first-hand evidence of the disdain in which ...

Gone are the motherhouses where young women flocked to be educated and trained in the disciplines of particular religious orders. Gone, for the most part, are the habits and the women, many of ...