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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Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomes plan to add military chaplaincy
Polish church leaders call for more action to prevent abuse by priests
Spanish bishops praise abdicating king's defense of democracy
Church in CAR wants more protection from peacekeepers after attack
Ukrainian Catholics fear 'new oppression' after Russian takeover
Catholic clergy in Crimea defend Ukraine's right to self-determination
Catholic leaders praise missioners who stay in Central African Republic
Cardinal defends publication of Blessed John Paul's private notebooks
Ukraine church urges return to peace amid spiraling street violence
Burkina Faso archbishop says appointment as cardinal was act of grace
German bishops eye guidelines for divorced Catholics to take Communion
