The symbol of the Protestant Reformation — Luther hammering his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on Oct. 31, 1517 — may not have happened.

Amid ceremonies marking Luther's legacy 500 years on, there have also been protests about an anti-Semitic sculpture (Judensau) which remains on the facade of another church in Wittenberg.

One fated Halloween, 500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle in a dramatic act of defiance against the Catholic Church. Or, he may have just hung it on ...

The Reformation shattered the authority of the Catholic Church, but there are signs that divisions have finally been set aside. ... Hamlet's mother Gertrude begs him not travel to Wittenberg.

Martin Luther, founder of Germany's Protestant (Lutheran) Church, nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, on Oct. 31, 1517. RNS file image Emily McFarlan Miller ...

Luther, a monk famous – some would say infamous – for nailing a 95-point critique of Catholicism to the door of a church in Wittenberg, arranged for a merchant who delivered herring to Nimbschen Abbey ...

On October 31, 1517, German scholar Martin Luther is said to have nailed his argument against the Catholic Church's sale of better treatment after death to a church door in Wittenberg.

Sure, Martin Luther’s nailing of his “95 Theses” to the Wittenberg Castle chapel’s doors five centuries ago eventually led to a prolonged, bloody schism in the Western Church, and the more ...

Catholic monk Martin Luther (1483-1546) in the German city of Wittenberg, set out to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but instead ended up becoming the founder of a second christian confession.

COVER STORY JULY 29, 1968, may prove to be a major landmark in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church—as significant, perhaps, as the moment when Martin Luther decided to post his theses ...

The Reformation shattered the authority of the Catholic Church, but there are signs that divisions have finally been set aside. ... go not to Wittenberg. (Hamlet Act I, Scene ii).