Appreciation: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 8 at the age of 96, was deeply respected for her profound personal Christian faith — a faith she publicly articulated more frequently as she got older.
At the end of a highly unusual spiritual retreat for the political leaders of warring factions, Pope Francis knelt at the feet of the leaders of South Sudan, begging them to give peace a chance and to be worthy "fathers of the nation."
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told a national commission investigating child sex abuse that his church has not done enough to root out the problem.
Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran leaders in England gathered Oct. 31 for an hour-long service in Westminster Abbey to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
The first gay marriage in an Anglican church in Britain took place Aug. 1, a day after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby described the continuing squabbles over same-sex marriage in the worldwide Anglican Communion as “intractable.
