Martin Luther, a Catholic monk, did something 500 years ago that changed the world. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church had split in 1054 A.D. over the authority of the pope, but ...

Oct. 31, 2017, marks 500 years since Martin Luther famously rebeled against the Catholic Church with his 95 theses. Visitors to Germany can see where the Reformation began, and much more, in Luther ...

On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a list of propositions aimed at problems in the Roman Catholic Church, to the door of the university church in Wittenberg, Germany. He wanted to ...

Brad S. Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Unintended Reformation and, most recently, Rebel in the Ranks: ...

Five hundred years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, the small-town monk Martin Luther marched up to the castle church in Wittenberg and nailed his 95 Theses to the door, thus lighting the flame of the ...

Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — Reformation Day is Tuesday and it marks the anniversary of Martin Luther's written critique of the Catholic church, including its selling of indulgences. As the story goes, Luther ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative It was over 500 years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, that a German monk, Martin Luther, initiated a split in the Roman ...

Sometime around Oct. 31, 1517, the Western world changed. Before, the fate of the soul was determined by a hierarchal Church; after, it was determined by personal faith. Before, saints and spectacle ...

Rick Steves traces the events of the Protestant Reformation where they happened Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther kicked off the Protestant Reformation, which contributed to the birth of our ...