Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Lyra’s Earth, John Calvin became Pope whereas in ours, around 1530, he became one of the leading figures of the Protestant ...

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” This is what often pops into my head many times when people use the word Magisterium in articles and comboxes across the ...

A vigorous agreement has broken out in Rome, and there is rancor and recrimination all round. The new book by Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah — or latterly by Cardinal Sarah with Benedict XVI — ...

(RNS) — “Magisterium” is one of those incense-perfumed Catholic words, reeking of pomp and power. The Vatican says as much on its website, explaining that “ecclesiastical magisterium” means that ...

Magisterium, a new young adult fiction series co-written by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, moves deftly into the gap left by Harry Potter and is gripping from the four-page prologue to the first ...

The current position of the church's magisterium that all its teaching is to be accepted as definitive, authentic and binding and is not subject to disagreement is experiencing growing rejection by ...

Filming on the eagerly-anticipated His Dark Materials began at the end of last month, but don't go expecting any spoilers to leak. Fans have spotted scenes with Gyptians being filmed in Oxford and ...

The first lecture I ever gave on the topic of the church’s magisterium was given in Latin to my students at the Gregorian University more than 40 years ago. Little did I think then that one day the ...

"Magisterium" is one of those incense-perfumed Catholic words, reeking of pomp and power. The Vatican says as much on its website, explaining that "ecclesiastical magisterium" means that teaching ...

When viewers new to author Philip Pullman’s story tune into HBO’s upcoming adaptation of His Dark Materials, they will discover a world very different from ours. The people of that parallel Earth all ...

Callum Hunt must attend the Iron Trial. A test for potential apprentices to the Magisterium, an elite magic school. Everyone's desperate to pass. But not Callum, after everything his father has ...