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...said with absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Karl Marx. Still another was Martin Luther, friar of the Augustinian Order of Eremites, who 450 years ago posted his 95 theses concerning indulgences to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. There was nothing defiant or earth-shaking about the act itself-all theologians of the day publicly announced their willingness to debate a timely religious issue. Not until later, in fact, did Luther come to realize that his action of Oct. 31, 1517, was the first shot in the war of words...
...brilliant Augustinian friar Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church and, in effect, began the Reformation. It was also the beginning of his excommunication by Rome; four years later, Pope Leo X drummed the great heretic out of the church. Now two ecumenically minded men from St. Louis have asked Pope Paul VI if it isn't time to end the grudge. Wrote the Rev. Walter Riess, a Lutheran minister, and Edward Meiners, a Catholic layman: "Your lifting of his excommunication would voice to all Protestants a fresh expression of your...
...Several copies of Luther's ring were made around 1817 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the day Luther posted his 95 theses on the Wittenberg Church. Although museum officials in Schonberg are still examining the newly found ring, it is believed to be Luther's original. The wedding ring worn by Luther's wife is in a Leipzig museum...
Catholic moralists in the U.S. reacted to the article as if Canon Janssens had nailed a 96th thesis to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. The Rev. Francis J. Connell, former dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Catholic University, said that the article was "absolutely contrary to the teaching of the church in this area." In a rebuttal of Janssens' thesis that was printed by many diocesan papers, Jesuit Father Edward Duff wrote that "no established Catholic theologian is on record as agreeing with...
Cornell is strong at the top; Fran Farraro, 177, has lost one match, and Mike Wittenberg, 191, hasn't lost any. The match just might come down to the heavyweights, as it did last year...