The discussion among Protestant churches themselves is a matter wholly different from the discussion between the Protestant churches and Rome. All the Protestant churches trace their origin back to ...
On Sunday, local Lutherans will join with Evangelical Lutherans and other Reformation churches throughout the world in the observance of the evangelical reformation of the church. The Reformation is ...
Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal ...
This story appears in the Reformation turns 500 feature series. View the full series. A woodcut from a 1568 Protestant pamphlet shows Martin Luther and other Protestants withstand attacks from the ...
PARIS (RNS) Five hundred years after the Reformation, one of Protestantism’s leading branches has officially said it now agrees with the Vatican on the main issue at the root of its split from the ...
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church Vicar Brad Welik portrays Martin Luther and Rob Crawford the notorious seller of indulgencies, Johann Tetzel, in church’s “Walk Through the Reformation.” It is part of ...
“As a pastor, you shouldn’t take a stand one way or the other. You should just be neutral.” I often hear lines like this from church members. I’m guessing they haven’t read Anna Mad­sen’s new book, ...
LOS ANGELES — While debates continue about how to address the Church’s governance and policies with regard to sexual and financial abuse, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles brings into ...
Two matters, both of them of greatest importance, are before us. On the one hand, there is the Reformation, a decisive turning point in church history. What is more, it is not merely an event of past ...