An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

Dolton residents were skeptical at Tuesday's board meeting, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford ...

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

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

Martin Luther was one of the key figures in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century in which western Christianity was split in two—with the Roman Catholic Church in one camp and ...

The Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther’s Antisemitic Writings The Protestant Reformation (1517–1648) was a religious revolution that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.

This church is where Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer who wrote the "Ninety-five Theses" against corruption in the Roman Catholic Church, delivered his last four sermons in 1546.

Sola Scriptura began when Martin Luther decided to deny the infallibility of the Church, ecumenical councils and the pope — i.e., claiming that they could err — thus leaving the Bible as the ...

The engraving above shows Martin Luther writing his protest on the door of Wittenberg’s All Saints’ Church. It is from a 1518 German broadside marking the first anniversary of the Ninety-Five ...

The Reinvention of the Catholic Church Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isn’t on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways. By Paul Elie ...