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An English Church Wants to Exhume the Skull of Thomas More, Tudor Statesman Beheaded by Henry VIII Nearly 500 Years Ago
The king accused More of treason and ordered his execution in 1535. Now, St. Dunstan's hopes to conserve the Catholic saint's ...
Why an archbishop's severed head is stored in a church cubbyhole
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, recently toured Gaza after what Israel says was stray ...