The big, bad, backwards Catholic Church had it coming, and Europe's world-wide ascent was thanks to the opening of minds by Protestantism. ... Even before the Reformation, ...

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

Before Luther, the Western church wasn’t perfectly calm. But, as Reformation historian Lee Palmer Wandel has shown, the Reformation produced deeper and more lasting divisions. In 1500, a ...

Pope Francis of the Catholic Church (center right) and the Rev. Dr. Munib Younan of the Lutheran Church (center left) lead the Joint Catholic-Lutheran Reformation Commemoration on Oct. 31, 2016 ...

Before proceeding, let me make some additional observations about whether the Reformation was a “mistake,” as my book’s title asks in light of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary.

In the wake of the horrendous sex abuse scandal which has afflicted the Catholic Church, criticism of Catholicism in its current form has exploded. Certainly much of the criticism comes with good ...

In this sense, the Protestant Reformation cannot be dismissed as a mere “mistake,” even if in my view it mistakenly deemed some Catholic doctrines to be unbiblical and church-dividing.

Pope Francis, center right, salutes Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 2, 2015. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP ...

It's been 500 years since the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. Find out what Martin Luther thought the Catholic Church was wrong about.

On this day 500 years ago, an obscure Saxon monk launched a protest movement against the Catholic Church that would transform Europe. Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation changed not just the ...