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Flynn left the Roman Catholic Church in 1979 when he finally realized he was an atheist after years of wrestling with his beliefs...
Flynn listed Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Clement C. Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nichols," or "`Taws the Night before Christmas," Francis Church and Thomas Nast as DWAMQs. Queen Victoria was also implicated, he said...
Father Julian von Duerbeck, a Benedictine priest who takes part in the Catholic Church's "Monastic Interreligious Dialogue," said he was interested in promoting dialogue between the Catholic Church and practitioners of Santeria...
...genius of Ackroyd's book is its reminder that More's conscience was communal, standing in defense of the colorful and emotional piety of an England born of, and bound most preciously to, Catholic Christendom. It was to preserve those ties that More, the great humanist and loyal church reformer, debated the disloyal Protestants. It was to preserve his pious England that More enforced the ban on translations of the Bible into the incendiary vernacular, arguing that to "believe nothing but plain Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted...
George J. Church, a contributor to TIME, has written more than 125 cover stories