The Dispatch
The “heroes and heretics” who changed the Church and the world
Phillip Campbell discusses his book on some of the pivotal men and women of the Reformation era. […]
Protestant Reformation
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The legal and moral genius of St. Thomas More
A new book examines the life and mind of a man who is today much revered—and misunderstood. […]
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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “This day you will be with Me in paradise”
Preachers who suggest that Dismas (as tradition speaks of him) “stole heaven” do not do justice to the gratuity of salvation. For in a sense, […]
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“All Is Grace”: Lent, sacraments, and deification
Grace seems to have fallen on hard times in our own day and age. Two extremes in its regard are in competition – and both […]
History
The Reformation reformed
The chronology of the Reformation no longer opens with Luther’s 95 Theses. The seeds of revolt were planted long before 1517. […]
Features
Martin Luther: Father of modern liberty or political absolutism?
The German father of Protestantism did not seem to consider that his metaphysical undermining of the Church’s authority and the abandonment of natural law would […]
History
Women and the Protestant Reformation
Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was […]
Features
Cardinal Koch: “The commemoration of the Reformation reminded us of what unites us”
“In the commemoration of the Reformation,” says the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, “the emphasis was above all on what we […]
Essay
Which Reformation? What reform?
In reality, there were multiple, contending reformations in play in the first centuries of modernity. […]
Analysis
Protestantism in the Catholic Church: The emergence of a shared tradition?
Here are three major ways in which Protestantism has influenced the Catholic Church. […]