Jonathan Luxmoore
Jonathan Luxmoore is a freelance writer covering church news from Oxford, England, and Warsaw, Poland, and serving as a staff commentator for Polish Radio. He studied modern history at the University of Oxford and international relations at the London School of Economics and was a co-founder of the Polish chapter of Transparency International, the world's largest anti-corruption nongovernmental organization. His coverage of religious affairs during the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe won five Catholic Press Association awards, and his books include The Vatican and the Red Flag (London/New York, 1999), Rethinking Christendom: Europe's Struggle for Christianity (Leominster, 2005) and a two-volume study of communist-era martyrdom, The God of the Gulag (Gracewing, 2016).
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Poland's Catholic primate defends conservative vision
French bishops ask what has been learned since Charlie Hebdo attacks
Central African Catholic leader sees positive effects of papal visit
China's Catholics fear new anti-Christian campaign
Central African Republic faith leaders hope pope helps with peace
Church in Congo criticizes West for failing to stop abuse of resources
Changes in family life challenge Europe’s Catholic church
Church agencies highlight growing urgency of Europe's refugee crisis
French, British bishops urge solution to migrant crisis in channel port
Polish bishop suggests World Youth Day 2016 should be ‘open to all’
Ukrainian bishop warns of mass starvation, flight of millions
Polish bishops condemn IVF law, warn Catholics to not use process
Greece's hard-pressed Catholics keep up hopes for better times
European church gears up for battle at Vatican's family synod
Polish bishops vow to resist change at synod on the family
German church official says plan for electing bishops follows tradition
French Catholics want countries to quit buying oil from Islamic State
Europe's fractious Catholics set out their views in synod questionnaire
