What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...

A hundred years ago, Catholics were not interested in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, except to remember how a bunch of reformers led people astray. How times have ...

(RNS) — A hundred years ago, Catholics were not interested in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, except to remember how a bunch of reformers led people astray. How times ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

Almost 500 years have passed since Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-five Theses and launched the Protestant Reformation. Shot on location at key Reformation sites throughout Europe and featuring more ...

Martin Luther was a Catholic theologian and Augustinian monk who saw belief and righteousness as rooted in the Bible, God's grace and faith and less so in papal and church authority - ideas that would ...

This October marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation which is usually dated from the time Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517.

“Sheep counting,” wrote Claire Cox, “is an age-old remedy for insomnia, but not when it comes to clergymen. It only serves to keep them awake” (The New Time Religion, p. 25). Not since the Depression ...

THAT ardent Protestant before Protestantism, Saint Francis of Assisi, standing humbly before the great Pope Innocent, defended his wandering brothers, preaching without license, bringing souls to God ...