Lutherans and Catholics have pledged to celebrate together the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, with both sides agreeing to set aside centuries of hostility and prejudice. The ...

Sweden's only Catholic cardinal came to the U.S. for a brief visit in late August. But he did not come alone. Cardinal Anders Arborelius, who has led the small Catholic community in Sweden since 1998, ...

In a first-of-its-kind event, members of Elizabethtown’s St. Peter Catholic Church and Christ Lutheran Church will gather together Wednesday for a meal and vesper service to mark what is being called ...

That as many as a thousand Lutherans will rise and sing Martin Luther’s stirring “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” in a Catholic church on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation may seem surprising or ...

FARGO - Dave Adams was raised Catholic, so when he interviewed earlier this year for a position as pastor of the First Lutheran Church in Fargo, which sits directly across Broadway from the Cathedral ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Two leading Lutheran clerics have rejected suggestions from the Vatican that it could create a subdivision for converted Lutherans similar to its structures for Anglicans who join ...

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in a visit to Rome's Lutheran church on Sunday, said both sides, Catholics and Lutherans, should seek forgiveness for past persecutions. "There were terrible times ...

At a glance, Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton might appear to be just one of many progressive Protestant churches, not unusual in the Pacific Northwest. Its website and featured introduction video ...

For the National Lutheran Council, it appeared that day was dying in the west. Meeting on the West Coast for the first time since its organization in 1918 as the cooperative agency of American ...