O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet… Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...

In my book “Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical,” I aim to show that even if one disagrees with judgments made in the course of Catholic doctrinal development, the ...

Baroque Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi is hailed as a 'feminist icon' based on her portrayal of the female 'hero,' who through violence enacts symbolic revenge against men, and her supposed ...

The Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signed a “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” putting aside their differences over the way humanity achieves salvation ending an almost ...

A hundred years ago, Catholics were not interested in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, except to remember how a bunch of reformers led people astray. How times have ...

For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter.

In October 1517, some five hundred years ago, Martin Luther defiantly nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg Castle church and, in the process, gave birth to the ...

A year from now Christians around the world — some with pride, some with sorrow, many with ignorance — will commemorate the start of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago. Commemorate — not ...

(RNS) — Two theology professors — one Catholic, one Protestant — get to the heart of what divides them: how they reason from the Bible. (RNS) — Two theology professors — the first Catholic, the second ...