There can be no greater honour, surely, than for a Roman Catholic to be declared a saint. It is a sign that the Church ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish ...

The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it. It chronicles how the ...

One of the popular images is that the Church was so thoroughly corrupt that the Reformation had to take place, whereas, in fact, St. Catherine of Genoa was bringing reforms already.

I want to take a second on Reformation Day to be thankful for my Protestant friends, and my favorite Protestant authors. I've learned so much more about my own Catholic faith by engaging with them.

For most of his adult life, Henry was a devout Catholic close CatholicA member of the Catholic Church. Catholics believe in having a hierarchy of priests and bishops beneath the Pope, who is the ...

More from my RCIA history notes: The Catholic Reformation finally manifested itself, in part from the new movements such as the Jesuits and the Capuchins and the Barnabites and the Ursulines, and ...

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy in 2013 may be marked by historians as the beginning of a new era of the Catholic Church and of all Christianity. Pope Francis is the first pope ...

In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself ...

“The pamphlet is effectively the Twitter of 1517,” says Carefoote. Just like the Reformation era, the age of social media has eroded the role of the information gatekeepers – the Catholic Church in ...