A newly discovered fragment of papyrus suggests Jesus was married. But can we trust the document, and was Mary Magdalene the lady in question?
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/ 2 December 2011
The Literary Review awards highlight the steamiest and most excruciating writing of the year.
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/ 4 November 2011
Fans of Joseph Heller’s novel <em>Catch-22 </em>may be surprised to learn that the author actually enjoyed his military service during World War II.
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/ 29 November 2010
When Pope Benedict XVI sat down with a German journalist, he probably never imagined that his cautious remarks about condoms would spark excitement.
Joker in foreign office forces a grovelling official apology to a defensive Catholic Church.
The eyes of the Anglican world, Christianity’s third-largest denomination, were last week focused on an agreeable Victorian Italianate mansion in Northern Ireland. Anglicanism’s biggest cheeses — 35 of its 38 primate archbishops and presiding bishops — were sequestered inside, supposedly praying about the church’s future. This urgent desire for a united Anglicanism is a recent development.