Catholics, Lutherans unite to plan ’17 event

Whatever you’ve seen in the movies and in photographs, Martin Luther probably didn’t nail his “95 Theses” onto a church door in Wittenberg, Germany.

 

What he certainly did on Oct. 31, 1517, was put the document in the mail, and the rest is history. His theses — the tentative first salvos in what became a broad challenge to Catholic teaching, authority and practice — ignited the Protestant Reformation, which split Western Christianity and created the Lutheran and myriad other denominations.

 

But in recent decades, relations have warmed between Catholics and the majority of Lutheran denominations.

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