Across

8 Spiritual audience in part for former archbishop (4)

9 Success bound to follow a man with sign of learning, David’s counsellor (10)

10 Charming thing, cross, put in middle of path (6)

11 Psalm is featured in simple religious education (8)

12 It’s grey in the afternoon outside Catholic university (8)

14 Bishop concerned with a church rupture (6)

16 Visit perhaps around end of Lent (4)

17 Intention of first person reportedly in worshippers’ way (5)

18 Types in a group that may be seen near church entrance (4)

19 Find second to enter number in holy book (6)

21 Cite among outsiders in shrine old religious party member (8)

23 Clash said to unsettle largely Orthodox member? (8)

26 Overweight fellow left in front of devotional site, lacking energy (6)

27 Friend suppressing misleading fiction regarding papal authority (10)

28 Canon swapping directions? It’s tempting (4)

Down

1 Worries about laxity initially in awkward time for friars and nuns (10)

2 Daily rot that’s replaced a form of worship (8)

3 Affected sentiment about Swiss area (6)

4 Stable made of wood with little male (4)

5 Chapter owns fancy blue vestment (8)

6 Thinly scattered pears mouldering under sun (6)

7 Animal with hair cut short (4)

13 Man of the law retained by supremo’s estate (5)

15 See, somewhere in Kent, a stand for keeping papers (10)

17 Construct publicity first for fighter, maybe (8)

18 Fine mat found by colleague without spending much (8)

20 Hard ground revealing symbol of home (6)

22 Pollute gorge (6)

24 I study object of veneration (4)

25 Design of sailing boat with front obscured (4)

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