In the view of these reformers, the Church of England needed to simplify its rituals, which still closely resembled Catholic practices, reduce the influence of the clerical hierarchy and bring the ...

Within the hierarchy of the Church, both bishops and priests around the world were boldly speaking out in favor of contraception and especially the Pill. The Church had convened a papal commission ...

He said the church “understood well . . . and also assumed the risks” of such involvement. The confession, if truthful confirms long-held suspicions that Argentina’s Catholic hierarchy ...