A rent-a-Pope lookalike who’s never been booked as the Pope and looks more like Jim Bowen than the Pope says it might not be too long until he hangs up his own Pope’s cassock. Brian Holdom has worked ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Pope Francis’s successor will be elected in the coming days ... Clement’s successor Paul III excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII, cementing the English break with Rome in 1538. Alexander VI was ...

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry ...

Now that Henry VIII is head of the Church of England, and he’s taking down the monasteries and cutting off funds to the papacy, he’s clearly not part of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope.

His book refuting the heresies of Luther which he presented to the Pope gained him the new title Fidei Defensor ... who survived her husband. The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took ...