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How volcanoes triggered the Black Death in medieval Europe Eruptions wiped out crops in the Mediterranean forcing cities to import grain from the east, bringing with it fleas infected with bubonic plague

NEW:🚨 We finally know how the pandemic began!

(No, not that one)

The extremely surprising role of volcanoes in causing the Black Death to spread to medieval Europe and wipe out half the continent's population 🌋🦠

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Giant spinning strand of galaxies discovered in deep space The structure — the largest such ever found — measures 50 million light years from end to end and offers an insight into the formation of the universe

🚨 MIND-BOGGLING ASTRONOMY NEWS 🚨

Moons, planets, stars and galaxies rotate, but astronomers have now spotted the largest spinning structure ever detected in the universe...

...measuring 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 end-to-end

Read here ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

God wants us to wear tacky Christmas jumpers, says Dean of Salisbury Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos says God is ‘tasteless’ and does not make aesthetic judgments even when it comes to the most lurid festive knitwear

Fun exclusive:

Tacky Christmas jumpers get divine blessing 🎄✝️

Church of England backs festive knitwear, as Dean of Salisbury says God is "tasteless" too www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian The Conservative Party leader told the Political Thinking podcast that ‘in early Christian times there was no state or welfare’

Exclusive: Kemi Badenoch thinks welfare is un-Christian?

This is "eccentric beyond belief", a former Archbishop of Canterbury told @TheTimes.com

Anglican and Catholic bishops express disquiet at the Tory leader citing the Bible to decry welfare spending:
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

King commands approval of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury The first of three ancient ceremonies took place on Tuesday to install the successor to Justin Welby as the spiritual leader of the Church of England

FULL REPORT:

@thetimes.com was invited to witness the ancient "election" ceremony for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, held under the King's command

Read here ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

King commands approval of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury The first of three ancient ceremonies took place on Tuesday to install the successor to Justin Welby as the spiritual leader of the Church of England

FULL REPORT:

@thetimes.com was invited to witness the ancient "election" ceremony for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, held under the King's command

Read here ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

So that marks the first of the three ancient ceremonies to install the next Archbishop of Canterbury

Check out @thetimes.com's stunning visual guide to all the pomp and ceremony still to come, here: www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Here we see the Dean of Canterbury using a screw press to apply his cathedral's seal to documents declaring Sarah Mullally to be Archbishop-elect of Canterbury

This ceremony has previously been conducted behind closed doors, but @thetimes.com was among a small audience for the rite

What happens now that a new Archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen? The surprise election of Sarah Mullally as Justin Welby’s successor was shrouded in secrecy. Here’s our visual guide to the process

We all know about the Pope's conclave...

But what pomp is there for a new Archbishop of Canterbury?

Today the first of three ancient ceremonies confirms Sarah Mullally as "Archbishop-elect"

Read @thetimes.com's gorgeous visual guide to the unusual process:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Inside the hard-fought campaigns to create British saints A rare glimpse of the miracles, money and divine intervention needed to convince the Vatican to canonise candidates

What does it take to make a British saint? 🇬🇧😇

@thetimes.com goes inside campaigns to canonise seven Brits

And reveals the reported miracles that could see them propelled to sainthood...
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Inside the hard-fought campaigns to create British saints A rare glimpse of the miracles, money and divine intervention needed to convince the Vatican to canonise candidates

What does it take to make a British saint? 🇬🇧😇

@thetimes.com delves inside the costly campaigns to canonise seven Brits

And reveals the reported miracles that could see them propelled to sainthood... www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Inside the hard-fought campaigns to create British saints A rare glimpse of the miracles, money and divine intervention needed to convince the Vatican to canonise candidates

What does it take to make a British saint? 🇬🇧😇

@thetimes.com goes inside campaigns to canonise seven Brits

And reveals the reported miracles that could see them propelled to sainthood...
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

NEW: Your step-by-step guide to making a saint 👼

Miracles and money - @thetimes.com gets a rare glimpse inside the campaigns to canonise seven new British saints

A journey through the divine intervention, cash, publicity... and mountains of paperwork required
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

NEW: Your step-by-step guide to making a saint 👼

Miracles and money - @thetimes.com gets a rare glimpse inside the campaigns to canonise seven new British saints

A journey through the divine intervention, cash, publicity... and mountains of paperwork required
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Justin Welby returns to preaching with sermons — and jokes — in US The former Archbishop of Canterbury cannot preach in England, after he resigned over his handling of abuse allegations against John Smyth

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Welby has returned to preaching for first time since resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury, delivering sermons (and some jokes) at two services in the US

He's in the US doing reconciliation work and was invited to preach by a local bishop:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Justin Welby returns to preaching with sermons — and jokes — in US The former Archbishop of Canterbury cannot preach in England, after he resigned over his handling of abuse allegations against John Smyth

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Welby has returned to preaching for first time since resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury, delivering sermons (and some jokes) at two services in the US

He's in the US doing reconciliation work and was invited to preach by a local bishop:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

‘We need hope in chaos’ says tycoon funding £30m prayer monument Lord Edmiston, once a major Tory supporter, speaks about how witnessing faith-healing led him to back a towering Christian sculpture in the West Midlands

NEW: First interview with one of Britain's richest men, Lord Edmiston, on the £30m+ donation from his company to build a gigantic Christian monument in the Midlands countryside...

He also funded Brexit and gave millions to the Tories. Does he anymore?:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Religion is no longer something inherited from parents, but more of a lifestyle choice for under-35s, study by @IIFL_uk finds

They feel freer to adopt - and abandon - a faith depending on how it benefits their wellbeing

Read here:
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

This chimes with what I am seeing (have met several parents/grandparents in recent weeks who were invite to church by their children/grandchildren rather than other way round). It also raises important questions for churches @churchofengland.org

Religion is no longer something inherited from parents, but more of a lifestyle choice for under-35s, study by @IIFL_uk finds

They feel freer to adopt - and abandon - a faith depending on how it benefits their wellbeing

Read here:
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Reflection in the Regent's Canal looking a lot like an impressionist painting today

Muslims and Jews told: Break Gaza taboo - The Times

Could the Middle East ceasefire help bring peace further afield?

Muslim and Jewish women gather over shared cups of tea to be the "antidote" to tensions between their communities

While accepting they have to have "difficult conversations" about the war:
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A 200-year-old mystery over what destroyed Napoleon's armies as they retreated from their disastrous invasion of Russia may finally have been solved...

Read here:

edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

The Royals Society & Culture Podcast · Updated weekly · The latest news on the upstairs-downstairs drama that is the British royal family. Providing the inside scoop on Charles and Camilla, William and Kate, H...

For centuries it would've been *unthinkable* for a British monarch to pray with a Pope

On 'The Royals' podcast I chat with @RoyaNikkhah + @GeorgeGreenwood about the King's trip to the Vatican...

...amid the mushrooming fallout from Prince Andrew's scandals
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Dinosaurs were ‘thriving’ when asteroid hit — not in decline The last of the dinosaurs were far from extinction, with fossils showing they were ‘doing great’ when a meteor brought their world to an end

Were dinosaurs already in decline, even sliding towards extinction, when an asteroid came in to finish them off?

NOPE 🚫

Remarkable new evidence shows they were "thriving" when a huge space rock abruptly ended their 180-million-year reign atop the food chain:
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive in Rome to pray with Pope The visit to Italy will include a landmark service, the Vatican’s first joint prayer with a British monarch since before Henry VIII’s Reformation

UPDATE: King Charles arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Leo

First time British or English monarch has prayed with a pontiff since the Reformation, in a historic moment:

www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

Pregnancy test created … for 1,000-year-old skeletons It has been very tricky for archaeologists to identify women who died while carrying a baby or in childbirth — until now

How late will a pregnancy test work? Can it still give a positive result 1,000 years after conception?

A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Powerful Anglican faction rejects next Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Rwanda has spoken out against Dame Sarah Mullally in a ‘power play’ that raises the risk of a global schism

Before even starting as Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally is facing rejection and a boycott from a faction of conservative Anglican churches

Remains to be seen how many will heed Archbishop of Rwanda's call to sever ties with the Church of England:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

King and Pope to make history with prayers together at Vatican Charles and Leo will be the first British monarch and pontiff since Henry VIII was excommunicated to join together for a holy service

BREAKING:

King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week

First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation

King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

King and Pope to make history with prayers together at Vatican Charles and Leo will be the first British monarch and pontiff since Henry VIII was excommunicated to join together for a holy service

BREAKING:

King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week

First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation

King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...