If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago this Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia ...

St. Boniface, who lived on the bridge between the 7th and 8th centuries, is honored as the “Apostle of Germany” because of his work in Christianizing the pagans of those lands. St. Peter Canisius ...

Recent debates about leaving Jesus out, or else getting him out, of the Christmas season look somewhat curious from the vantage-point of Rome. In what remains a culturally Catholic country, and at a ...

How we began to remember that all humans are basically and fundamentally equal. ‘The Century of the Common Man” is the title that we of the twentieth century, in our complacency, frequently bestow ...

Welcome to the post-Protestant Reformation. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist “Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith,” Dwight Eisenhower said in ...

If you ask most people what holiday they associate with banging on doors and the last day of October, they will likely say Halloween. However, several groups around the world also recognize another ...