November 1920. King George V unveiling the cenotaph in Whitehall. © Getty Images
Georges Rouault (French, 1887–1958) Les Ruines Elles-Memes Ont Peri (Miserere No. 34), 1926, etching, aquatint on paper, 65.7×50.2 cm. © Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection.
Louis Christian Prediger Haeusser, (1881–1927) © Ullsteinbild/AKG Images.
1st February 1922. Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, 1857–1939) © Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.
Group from a Mockery Procession. A scene from the Christmas Festival of the Godless.
Project for a Communist Mass Festival Dedicated to the ‘Visible God’ the Machine. Drawing by M. Dobnynski.
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, USSR, early 1930s. © Sovfoto.
‘Los Nacionales’ Ministerio de Propaganda. The Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
20 August 1936. A loyalist firing squad seen taking aim at a statue of Christ on the Cerro de los Angeles, outside Madrid. © AP Photo.
July, 1936. The Corpse of a Carmelite nun on public display in Barcelona, Spain during the Spanish Civil War. © Hulton Deutsch/Corbis.
Libertas, Shield and Difendetemi.
‘Salva I Tuoi Figli’. Christian Democrat poster for the election campaign of 1948.
Nightime projections in Piazza del Duomo in Milan for the celebration of 28 October 1933.
The homeless and refugees take shelter in makeshift dormitories at Castelgandolfo.
Gemalde von Hermann. Im Anfang war das Wort (In the Beginning was the Word) © Ullsteinbild/AKG Images.
The Preaching of the Antichrist, detail of Christ and the Devil, from the Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio, 1499–1504 (fresco), Signorelli, Luca (c.1450–1523)
Duomo, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
Catholic Fashions, Clerical modes for Summer.
Vichy 1940–1944. La Legion des Combattants.
Pope Pius XII, talking with children during the 80th birthday party they gave for him at the Vatican. © James Whitmore/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
Citizen marchers carrying posters of Joseph Stalin at a May Day parade in Bucharest, Romania c 1950s. © Sovfoto.
Anti-Communist Poster Illustration: the transition of the Militant
Godless to the continuous working week. The Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
18 March 1980. Archbishop Oscar Romero. © Christian Poveda/Corbis.
22 August 1980. Workers participate in religious confession at the entrance to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. © Alain Keler/Sygma/Corbis.
That Was The Week That Was, Henry Morgan, Elliott Reid, David Frost, Nancy Ames, 1964–65. © Everett Collection (EVT)/Rex Features.
May 1968. A demonstrator hurls a stone to riot police officers in Paris. © AP Photo.
25 March 1989. Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, hold a bed-in for peace, Amsterdam. © AP Photo.
October 1990. Pallbearers at the funeral of Dessie Grew. © Pacemaker Press.
Christological Mural, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
20 March 1988. Father Alex Reid tends to a British Soldier who was mobbed following an IRA funeral at the Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. © TDY/Rex Features.
11 September 2001. The South Tower of the World Trade Centre bursts into flames after being stuck by hijacked United Airlines Flight 175. © Sean Adair/Reuters/Corbis.
5 August 2003. Captured Taliban soldiers and members of Al Qaeda, Sheberghan, Afghanistan. © Sipa Press/Rex Features.
2 November 2004. The covered body of Theo van Gogh. © Eran Oppenheimer/Empics
28 October 2005. Riots in the Clichy-Sous-Bois area of suburban Paris, following the death of two teenage boys. © Jean-Michel Turpin/Corbis.