Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination. The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single...

Expelled from the archdiocese of Sydney as a young priest for his outspoken views on the Vietnam War, Father Frank Docherty returns to Australia in 1996 to speak at a conference on paedophilia within the Catholic Church. He had hoped to spend time with his mother and old friends. Instead, he finds himself caught up in the cases of two people who claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cleric - one the son of Docherty's former parishioner,...

Terry Malloy is a hoodlum, caught between the beginnings of a conscience and the racketeers for whom he works. Katie is torn between her belief that he killed her brother and her love for him. Together with a Catholic priest from the slums, Terry and Katie take on the gangster-ridden waterfront unions of New York's harbour.

In 'Vatican II', an international team of theologians challenges the standard view of the Council as causing a rupture with earlier Catholic teaching. They argue the The Council was indeed putting forth a vision for the future of the Church, but that vision was grounded in two millennia of tradition.

A complete history of one of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions.