Many U.S. Roman Catholics were as riled as their Protestant fellow citizens by the Archbishop of Seville’s recent attack on Spain’s hard-pressed Protestant minority (TIME, March 17). Said the Indiana ...

A Lyonnais named Peter Waldo anticipated by 300 years the Protestant Revolt: in 1180 he led a minuscule group of heretics out of the Church of Rome.* For nearly seven centuries the Waldenses, the ...

The simple answer is that they met a need. Europe entered the modern world almost overnight in the early 16th century. The voyages of exploration to the Americas and the Indies, the Protestant revolt, ...