The Holy Father this morning met representatives from the German Evangelical Church in the Augustinian monastery of Erfurt. Martin Luther entered the monastery in 1505 and lived there until 1511. The ...

ERFURT, GermanyERFURT, Germany — Pope Benedict XVI made a landmark visit Friday to the monastery where Martin Luther studied before splitting from the Catholic Church centuries ago and launching the ...

I’m a Baptist. So, what do I know about Martin Luther? Until recently, just the basics. In 1517, he nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, and in 1521 he defended his theology ...

head Bishop Nikolaus Schneider (L) walks to the cloister with Pope Benedict XVI in the Augustinian Monestry (Augustinierkloster) in Erfurt September 23, 2011/Max Rossi_ Pope Benedict, visiting the ...

On July 2, 1505, a young law student in central Germany was walking from Mansfeld, where he’d visited his family, to Erfurt, the university town where he studied. He was almost there when a ...

ERFURT, GermanyERFURT, Germany — Pope Benedict XVI traveled Friday to the eastern city of Erfurt to hold a joint service with Germany’s Protestant churches in a chapel where Martin Luther once prayed ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: We started our journey in the eastern German town of Eisenach. Martin Luther’s father Hans sent him to study Latin here in 1498 when he was 13 to study Latin. Luther lived ...